The Geometry of Cynicism

What remains is a government stacking corpses to buy time, a leader turning hostages into alibis, and a country slipping through its own fingers like wet sand. None of this is new. It’s just a meticulous update of an old formula: fear, war, distraction. The trick is simple, almost mathematical. As the sirens wail, the courts go silent. As rockets streak across the sky, scandals evaporate.

Netanyahu, the grand illusionist, draws the smoke curtain with surgical precision. The resumption of predictable and convenient attacks has conveniently pushed one of those pesky court hearings off the agenda. War is always the perfect excuse, a collective alibi where the dead unwittingly sign a political stay of execution. The trial can wait. The crisis can wait. The waiting never ends.

But that is not enough. It never is. The spectacle needs a moral, a narrative, an eternal enemy. And so, Netanyahu’s media machine goes to work. Carefully curated statements are polished in English for the right eyes and in the correct language. The tragedy distilled into a dry, unflinching script: It’s all Hamas’s fault. International outrage builds? A new strike is authorized. The cameras shift focus, and the trick repeats. Truth is irrelevant—only efficiency matters.

Efficient, yes. But for how long?

Netanyahu speaks as if he were a spectator to his disaster as if Gaza’s ruins bore no trace of his hand. As if Hamas’s tunnels had sprung from nowhere, as if the collapse of national security were not a structure he built, brick by brick, over decades. Hamas thrived under his government, fed by the cold calculations of a right wing that always needed an enemy big enough to justify its promises. The monster grew in the basement while Netanyahu sold security in the shop window. Now, the cellar has caved in, and he feigns surprise.

But it does not matter. As long as the war rages, he remains necessary. As long as hostages remain captive, he can still pose as the only man capable of bringing them home. And as long as there is an enemy to point to, he can pretend this disaster does not bear his name.

The war will end. And with it, so will Netanyahu. There will be no more smokescreen, no more excuses, only the cold certainty of a nation drained, a people betrayed, and a leader finally exposed.

The ending has already been written. The only question is how many will die before it arrives.