Netanyahu cashes in on Trump's endorsement, warning of attacks on the vote

After weeks of waiting, Benjamin Netanyahu has obtained what could in all respects be a winning card for the October 27 vote.

In a long post addressed to the 'great people of Israel', Donald Trump declares his "full and total support for Bibi in his bid for re-election as prime minister". The message comes the day after the prime minister's warning to the country in which he defined "the elections in the balance" because the two main blocs are tied. Not only that, Netanyahu knows that a large portion of the election will remain undecided until the last moment and that the crisis in the West Bank is weighing more every day, with extremist settlers literally out of control, and the targeted killings in Gaza, which on Sunday also caused the death of a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy.

"Bibi Netanyahu was a great fighting prime minister and an even more important partner for peace in the fight against Iran, which for 51 years has been repeating the slogan 'Death to Israel, death to America!'", wrote the US president, underlining that certain things end up becoming reality. “It was just a matter of time.” Trump made it clear that if Tehran "does not change course, and quickly, the job will soon be done, and if Israel gets the wrong leader - anyone other than Bibi - America will be forced to deal with it alone." “Which I have no intention of doing,” the Commander in Chief declared.

Netanyahu, who meanwhile canceled the rally in Tel Aviv on Monday evening, immediately relaunched in a video addressed to voters: "There is a task to be completed in the next two years, perhaps even before, the elimination of the Iranian threat", he said, knowing he was plunging the knife into an open wound in Israeli society, which after 7 October no longer has any doubts about the real intentions of Iran and its allies. The alert will be maximum on the symbolic date of the elections due to fears of terrorist attacks, with the head of the IDF having ordered all soldiers to report for duty on that day. The prime minister defined the electoral round as 'crucial': "Either the right or Palestine".

Meaning that the votes that do not go to the right will be for those in Israel who want the State of Palestine.

Trump's words were not appreciated by Gadi Eisenkot, the prime minister's rival in the electoral race, who declared at a conference that she "admired the American president, but Israel is a democratic country: only Israelis can choose their own leaders".

Meanwhile, that part of the electorate that does not forgive Bibi for having let the situation become explosive in the West Bank has flooded social media underlining that "the wild anarchists" 48 hours after the attack on the WP photojournalist in the West Bank are still at large. No arrests were made. Not even for the attack against a delegation of French, Belgians and Poles which took place on Saturday in the Taybeh area.

Enlarged images of the young settlers were posted on

In the Strip, Palestinian media reported that targeted attacks by the Israeli army hit the al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing not only IDF targets but also little Misk Hazem al-Dalu, 7, and Tamer Soboh, a 14-year-old boy, in Beit Lahiya. Who were added to the day's mourning list together with a 28-year-old woman and three other victims in different areas of Gaza.