LONDON: This is not the first time that Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has faced significant political pressure. First elected as prime minister in 1996, he has been swept in and out of office a total of three times, returning to power in 2009 and 2022 and serving a total of 18 years in the role. This time, however, with mounting international condemnation of his government’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza and the latest in a series of allegations about his handl