The greatest threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future isn’t Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran or criticism by Prime Minister Mark Carney and his support for a Palestinian state.

Rather, it’s hundreds of past and present Israeli military and security officials who publicly oppose his plan to re-occupy Gaza City, now in its early stage, along with a growing portion of the Israeli public, including the families of many Israeli hostages.

Eyal Zamir, chief of the general staff of the Israel Defence Forces, has publicly clashed with Netanyahu over his plan. He argued that attacking Gaza City, where 1.1 million Palestinians lived at the start of Israel’s war with Hamas, would further overextend Israel’s military, already exhausted from the 22-month conflict, and that it isn’t

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