He promised Israel’s “total victory”, but on Monday, next to Donald Trump at the White House, Benjamin Netanyahu showed this loser.

The Israeli prime minister said exactly what he had to say about the peace agreement he had just ended up with Donald Trump, but he looked frustrated, with a brief voice and without vigor, as he praised Trump as “the best friend of Israel”.

A friendship that can cost him his own government.

His far -right allies have threatened to leave – and probably throw the government – if he is making excessive concessions to end the war. His government partners, such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, have not hidden their desire to annex Gaza, expel the Palestinians and re-establish Jewish settlements there.

They themselves – but also Netanyahu – are opposed to any possible role of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, and any “window” for the creation of a Palestinian state.

However, The agreement signed by Netanyahu includes boththough with many reservations.

Trump knows that by pushing the Israeli prime minister to consent to this agreement, he asks him to risk his government. In return, it offers him the lure of a historical depository – A new, more peaceful future for the area and new ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Netanyahu was obvious, even before leaving for Washington, that he knew that the time was called upon to face this dilemma was approaching.

Israeli President Isaac Herzoga told a radio station that he is considering being given by Netanyahu’s corruption cases that he is currently facing in the courts. His critics argue that these trials are one of the reasons he is reluctant to leave the prime minister and stand before the judges without the “immunity” of his power and profile.

However, the political outlet currently offered to him – a regional level in exchange for his resignation from power, and probably his political career – does not seem to have fully convinced him.

Addressing today’s fellow citizens, for the first time following the agreement, he publicly stressed that he did not, in fact, agree to the creation of a Palestinian state.

“By no means. He is not even written in the deal, “he said, answering a question he received in front of television cameras. “But we have clarified one thing – that we will strongly oppose a Palestinian state.”

Reports in Israeli media this morning also said that the Israeli Council of Ministers would not vote on all terms of the agreement – but only for the exchange of Israeli hostages with Palestinian prisoners.

The question, however, is what political expediency these moves signify: that is, if Netanyahu is trying to keep his government alive As far as he needs to do his “political magic” polls – which today predict he will lose the elections – or If he bets Hamas will reject the agreement – Or she will not be able to control her commanders in Gaza- and so the war will continue.

The possibility of continuing the war was something he also pointed out at that uncomfortable press conference in Washington, stressing – with Trump’s support – that Israel will have the “green light” to ‘finish the job’ if Hamas does not adhere to the agreement. In this light, that uncomfortable moment may have been the price for the US to continue supporting its war.

Netanyahu is also known as a meter of political maneuvers, as a man who knows how to save time. It has changed its attitude in previous rounds of negotiations and has trampled on previous truce, just to avoid any debate to end the war.

Many believe that never wanted to negotiate the terrace of war In Gaza, but on the contrary, it was to force Hamas to surrender to the terms of Israel.

However, it is difficult to maintain the image of the unbearable “total victory” when he is publicly committed to exactly what he was trying to prevent throughout his career, and when he waits for his enemy response.

For the first time since the start of the war, it appears that the consequences of avoiding this agreement are worse than the consequences of its acceptance.

And if Trump really forced him to choose between his ally in Washington and his domestic allies, because Joe Biden did not do the same when a similar deal had been put on the table nine months ago – and when about 30,000 Gazes were still alive?