Iran war may help Netanyahu at home but hurt Israel abroad | CNN

“Netanyahu is the great war leader of our age” declared a headline in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper on Monday. The article, written by the prominent conservative journalist and Margaret Thatcher biographer Charles Moore, framed the Israeli prime minister as a Churchillian figure, whose decades‑long focus on Iran, alliance with President Donald Trump, and military successes against Hamas, Hezbollah and Tehran have fundamentally reshaped the Middle East. The comparison likely delighted Israel’s longest-serving leader, whose supporters rapidly shared the article on social media. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to see himself as the modern-day incarnation of Winston Churchill, standing as the international bulwark against Iran as the British leader once stood against Nazi Germany. The military success of the opening act of the current Iran war, which began with the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has bolstered the confidence of Netanyahu’s supporters as Israel barrels toward an election later this year. Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts According to a preliminary survey conducted by Israel’s Institute fo