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What is Netanyahu doing?

Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at Israel Policy Forum, helps us get inside Netanyahu’s head and understand the ways in which he and Hamas may be inextricably linked.

16 September 2025, 5:50 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surveys the scene of a terror attack at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem, on September 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Does Benjamin Netanyahu need Hamas — and even this war —for political survival? This week on Identity/Crisis, following Israel’s puzzling strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Yehuda Kurtzer and Michael Koplow, Chief Policy
Officer at Israel Policy Forum, try to get inside Netanyahu’s head and understand the ways in which he and Hamas may be inextricably linked.

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What is Netanyahu doing?

Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at Israel Policy Forum, helps us get inside Netanyahu’s head and understand the ways in which he and Hamas may be inextricably linked.

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What is Netanyahu doing?

Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at Israel Policy Forum, helps us get inside Netanyahu’s head and understand the ways in which he and Hamas may be inextricably linked.

More from Identity/Crisis

American Catholics, the Pope, and the Jews- with Robert George

When do we speak up? - with Abe Foxman

Rational or reckless? War, Iran, and the limits of strategy

When mysticism goes mainstream - with Daniel Matt

Jewish life in an illiberal age - with Jeffrey Goldberg