What is Netanyahu’s endgame in Iran war? – The Latest
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:11.5 | Over the last two and a half years, polling has repeatedly showed that the Israelis has been |
| 0:15.6 | very skeptical of Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. |
| 0:18.7 | What's interesting with the Iran war is that we see overwhelming |
| 0:21.8 | support for his handling of the war, for his decision to go to war. That doesn't seem to have |
| 0:26.5 | translated into political support for returning him to office. So basically, Israelis are |
| 0:31.9 | happy he decided to go to war, but they still don't want him to carry on being prime minister. |
| 0:36.7 | Four weeks into the Iran war, there is still overwhelming support in Israel for the military action. |
| 0:42.9 | But for Prime Minister Bunyman Netanyahu, it's a different story. |
| 0:47.0 | His career, legacy and personal freedom may all be on the line. |
| 0:51.6 | From The Guardians Today on Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy |
| 0:54.8 | Hoff. I'm joined by Emma Graham Harrison, the Guardian's chief Middle East correspondent based |
| 1:01.0 | in Jerusalem. So we want to look at the view from within Israel. Obviously, the war and Netanyahu's |
| 1:10.4 | fortunes are closely interlinked, but let's start with the |
| 1:14.1 | public support or otherwise for Israel and the US's war in Iran. How popular is the military action |
| 1:24.7 | at the moment? So there's been a couple of polls now, both from the beginning of the war and a couple of |
| 1:30.5 | weeks in, showing that support for the war among Jewish Israelis is absolutely overwhelming. |
| 1:35.5 | It started at over 90%, and it stayed at over 90%, which makes Israel a real outlier internationally. |
| 1:42.0 | It's probably the only country in the world where this |
| 1:44.3 | war has overwhelming popular support. And despite the fact that there are airroads, 15 people have |
| 1:52.3 | been killed, there is this sense of a threat that that support remains that resolute. |
| 1:59.4 | Absolutely. I mean, normal life's been very much disrupted, |
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