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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem

Netanyahu hopes destroying Iranian ‘axis of evil’ will rehabilitate his image

Benjamin Netanyahu
‘As far as Netanyahu is concerned, the road to the polling stations runs through Washington and Tehran,’ a minister close to Netanyahu told the Haaretz newspaper soon before the war began. Photograph: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Over three weeks of war, Iranian missiles have killed at least 15 people inside Israel, and injured many more, including about 200 in overnight strikes near a nuclear facility in the country’s south, but they have not touched public support for the war.

An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis back the decision to start a new conflict, with the Israel Democracy Institute putting support at more than 90% in two wartime polls.

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