Hawzah News Agency- In Haaretz, Zionist columnist Yoana Gonen argued that even the setting of the interview carried symbolic weight. Netanyahu appeared not from “an official government office” but from the Jerusalem villa of billionaire Simon Falic. To Gonen, the image was stark: “an aging, exhausted leader hiding in the shelter of a wealthy acquaintance while delivering lectures about courage and responsibility''.
Veteran Haaretz political analyst Yossi Verter wrote that the interview was “entirely meaningless in substance'', yet deeply revealing in appearance. What mattered, he argued, was not what Netanyahu said, but how he looked.
“Netanyahu has never appeared like this before'',Verter wrote. “His shoulders slumped, his posture bent, his face noticeably thinner”.
“I’ve covered Netanyahu for nearly a decade,” Cozin wrote, “met him dozens of times and seen him in person countless times, and I do not remember him ever appearing this way.” He described the prime minister as “extremely tired, hunched over, shoulders drooping, without a tie, sitting in an unusual posture''.
In Maariv, veteran Israeli-American affairs analyst Shlomo Shamir argued that the CBS interview revealed “a leader detached from reality''. Netanyahu, he wrote, appeared “like a tired old man” who offered nothing new despite having a prime-time opportunity to address both Israeli and American audiences.
Across Haaretz, Maariv, and Yedioth Ahronoth—alongside Cozin’s remarks on Army Radio—the interview has come to be viewed not as a media appearance but as a symptom of a broader unraveling.
Source: Al Manar
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