Peloni: Once known as Mr. Security, Netanyahu has never faced such an obstacle to his political future as he does today. His partner in the war against Iran is using that partnership to to offer Iran leverage over Netanyahu’s ability to fully address the threat from Lebanon by precluding attacks on Hezbollah’s nerve center in Southern Beirut. This leaves Netanyahu with a precarious dilemma, and one which is patently clear to the voters in the North whose support from Netanyahu will affected in material and substantial ways based on what comes from the war in the Lebanon.
Hezbollah rejects Lebanon ceasefire, launches rockets at Israeli targets
| Published: June 4, 2026
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is losing support among voters in northern Israel, after weeks of Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks, a recent poll showed.
A poll conducted by Agam Labs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem showed that northern residents who backed Netanyahu’s Likud party in large numbers in the last election are holding the prime minister responsible for the lack of security in the region.
CAIR. Photo: Alparslan Esmer, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.
