How the Likud campaign is being sabotaged - from within the Prime Minister's Office

Prime Minister Netanyahu defended the detention freeze law, but his associates now brief that it failed. The article criticizes the PM's office for lack of campaign discipline and claims that unidentified factors are sabotaging the Likud campaign.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the detention freeze law as a principled move and defended it publicly, but now his associates are briefing that the law failed and are distancing themselves from it. The article criticizes Netanyahu's office for lack of campaign discipline, impulsive decisions, and backtracking, and claims that there are factors insisting on sabotaging Netanyahu's campaign. It quotes Netanyahu saying on July 15 that false propaganda must be repelled and that the law does no harm, but now his associates say it did not succeed. The article asks why bring back a topic that had already died down to the center of the media agenda, and notes that the business is not being managed. It ends with a warning that expulsion from the city will be at the expense of the entire right-wing bloc.