Netanyahu is stuck as he battles Hamas: he can't afford to lose, yet can't find a way to win

Benjamin Netanyahu should have resigned after an hour, then a day, then a week and a month after the 7 October debacle, the most horrific day in Israel's history. He did not, because he isn't wired that way. Accountability and integrity are alien concepts reserved for the weak and feeble - not for him. He sees himself as a historic figure, responsibility as beneath him. He is not merely defiant, but terrified that his trial for corruption and bribery would proceed if he was to resign, and paralysed by the thought that he and the state will no longer be…