Considering the Trump Administration’s backing for Israel’s defense, Netanyahu is being exposed as weaker on defense than he claims. He deserves to be challenged. That’s assuming that the Trump Administration isn’t just talking tough in public, but pressuring Israel for ‘restraint’ in private.
He was never weak on uprooting outposts; brutal, vicious raids in the middle of the night on families sleeping in their plywood huts with dirt floors. He had Ehud Barak do the dirty deeds, via Druze soldiers he kept just for that purpose, in case the Jewish soldiers should balk.