New Delhi: The final outcomes of the disputed US presidential election have been critical for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make some strategic decisions. Despite an unrelenting support from Joe Biden the US President over the past year amid ongoing conflict in Israel, Netanyahu has not been able to achieve his goals. Facing the uncertainty due or the American political change, the Israeli prime minister is put in a very delicate situation.
The equity see the Republican candidate, Donald Trump as more pro-Israel than the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Harris’s prospects of a victory looked slightly better only a day ago, however Netanyahu wasted no time and quickly made a few crucial decisions; one of them was to dismiss Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant.
Tuesday night Netanyahu sacked Gallant from his post arguing that there were increasingly frequent and acrimonious disputes between them over the handling of war. But according to some scholars, it can be attributed to the fact that Trump was on the ropes in the election process. According to my sources, Netanyahu received some indications that Kamala Harris was on the ascendancy and therefore posited the possibility that she might bring him to book for not only not negotiating for the release of the hostages by Hamas, but also for escalating the war. For the same accountability, they perceive could cost him his job back home.
This and other changes are seen by analysts in an effort by Netanyahu to rid himself of a glut of enemies before change in the White House with the first step being the removal of the defence minister. But as expected he was banking on his Harris to clinch the victory, the perception seems to have changed. The final tally of votes has not been declared yet but the Republican candidate Donald Trump has taken the lead. Trump now stands at 251 electoral votes, only nineteen shy of a majority while Kamala Harris leads at 213 votes.
The politics in the United States are directly affecting the politics in Israel at the moment, with Netanyahu trying to reposition himself in an unpredictable landscape.