TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official, in a sign of widening cracks in Israel’s wartime government nearly five months into its war with Hamas.
This article is framing it like he is unpopular because of the year initial terrorist attack and not the planned genocide that followed it.
It’s both. He was unpopular before that and hoped that a way would keep him in power.
That’s because the war is still wildly popular domestically.