surveyed wanted netanyahu to keep his job after the war. 69% wanted elections as soon as the war ends. it is awkward to note this, but prime minister netanyahu has every incentive to keep the military campaign going in the hope that his day of reckoning can be postponed if not put off indefinitely. having bungled the strategy toward hamas before the war, he's trying to use maximum force now as political compensation. israel is a democracy and an open society. and precisely because of that, it will one day have to ask itself whether it acted appropriately in the heat of its anger and sorrow after october 7th. friends of israel should help it ask those questions now. so that it does not look back on this episode with shame and regret. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "washington post" column