Mid East update

 In a deeply reported piece, based on numerous interviews and trips to Israel, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, paints a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's shaky hold on power. Netanyahu has led Israel for more than 16 years, across his various terms — even longer than David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the state. Now, Netanyahu's polling is dismal, Remnick reports."He always campaigned on security, presenting himself as the one statesman and patriot who saw through the malign intentions of Israel's enemies," Remnick writes. "Yet with the Hamas massacre of some twelve hundred people in southern Israel, on October 7th, he had presided over an unprecedented collapse of state security." "The fury at Netanyahu among centrists and many conservatives is scarcely less intense. Galit Distel Atbaryan, a hard-line minister in Netanyahu's government, resigned after October 7th; she later talked of her 'burning anger' toward him," Remnick writes. REMINICK'S ARTICLE