Netanyahu's Decision Time for Gaza Is Fast Approaching

The big question regarding Israel’s war in Gaza has always been whether Benjamin Netanyahu had any intention of allowing a political settlement to end the fighting — of the kind the US administration has been pushing for and the United Nations Security Council has now demanded. We may soon have more clarity.

That’s in some measure because Netanyahu on Sunday dissolved his war cabinet, a move unlikely to have much substantive impact. Yet the disappearance of a body created specifically to rope his main political rival, Benny Gantz, into the operation’s conduct ensures that from now on responsibility will rest, squarely and transparently, with the prime minister and his government.