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Despite all of that, he has endured and, in fact, he has thrived!\u201d.The president added that normal men and women would have \u201cwilted\u201d under the pressure that Netanyahu was under, but the Israeli prime minister \u201cgot stronger\u201d.\u201cThis is the kind of Partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel, a Country for which it has done so much. Please let this Letter serve to represent my Complete and Total Endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu in his upcoming Race for Re-Election as Prime Minister of Israel. BIBI NETANYAHU WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!\u201d, he added.The Israeli election will be on October 27 . According to Israeli news outlet Haaretz\u2019s tracker, as of Sunday, the opposition alliance led by the Yashar party of Gadi Eisenkot is expected to win the most seats, at 52, with Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party-led coalition taking 51 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.So far, no party is projected to secure an outright majority.But Trump\u2019s endorsement comes after he had previously shied away from fully backing Netanyahu\u2019s election campaign.Earlier this month, when asked twice by TIME magazine if Netanyahu should be given another term, Trump pivoted to his own popularity in Israel and Washington\u2019s actions supporting Israel.When asked on Thursday by the right-wing US news outlet, Newsmax, if he was planning to get involved in the Israeli elections, \u00a0Trump said: \u201cThey\u2019d like me to be. Yeah, they\u2019d like me to be\u201d.When asked whether he trusted Netanyahu, Trump replied, \u201cI don\u2019t trust anybody, honestly\u201d.Still, Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East North Africa programme at the British think tank Chatham House, explained that Trump\u2019s endorsement of Netanyahu was \u201cpolitically significant\u201d because it comes after months of tension between the two leaders.\u201cIt allows Netanyahu to reinforce his claim that he is indispensable to Israel\u2019s relationship with Washington,\u201d Vakil told Al Jazeera.\u201cHowever, its electoral impact should not be overstated. Israeli voters remain divided over Netanyahu\u2019s leadership and the outcome of the Iran war. The endorsement may help consolidate his existing support, but it does not resolve the wider questions surrounding his record,\u201d she added.Andreas Krieg, senior lecturer at the school of security studies at King\u2019s College London, said that Trump\u2019s endorsement was a \u201cpolitical gift\u201d to Netanyahu, whose electoral campaign is struggling.But like Vakil, he cautioned against treating Trump\u2019s endorsement as a game-changer.\u201cNetanyahu\u2019s problems are structural, involving fragmented right-wing parties, disillusioned ultra-Orthodox voters and the legacy of October 7. Trump may mobilise reluctant Likud voters, potentially worth a seat or two in a close contest, but he cannot manufacture the coalition majority Netanyahu currently lacks,\u201d Krieg told Al Jazeera.What the endorsement means for the Iran warMuch of Trump\u2019s endorsement has been heavily focused on the Iran war, at a time when many analysts suggest the US president might be looking to restart attacks, either before or after the midterm elections in early November.The conflict, which began in February after the US and Israel launched attacks across Iran, is currently at a standstill.The Strait of Hormuz, which once transported 20 percent of global crude, was effectively shut by Iran after the war started. A US naval blockade of Iranian vessels followed, as each country struck ships passing through the waterway that they accused of not complying with its orders. Oil traffic last month through the strait picked up to pre-war levels as the US Navy shepherded an increasing number of tankers. But a spate of Iranian attacks on vessels early this month has again hit crude exports through Hormuz.On Monday morning, Brent crude futures stood at $107.57 a barrel, down slightly after reaching their highest since May 19 on Friday, when they briefly touched $110 a barrel.Last month, Iran presented a proposal to Washington to reopen the waterway within seven days, but negotiations failed after the US did not address Tehran\u2019s seven conditions, which included the lifting of sanctions and the ending of its naval blockade.Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian media outlets on Sunday that the proposal remained on the table and, if Washington accepts Tehran\u2019s conditions, the strait could reopen within six days, with talks resuming the following day.At the same time, Araghchi, in a post on X on Sunday night, accused Netanyahu of wanting to restart attacks on Iran with the US to \u201cstay out of jail\u201d.\u201cLast time you wanted to \u2018finish the job\u2019, Iran emerged even stronger. Want to try your luck again? Be our guest. But be careful; we have unfinished jobs too,\u201d he wrote.\u201cNetanyahu is driving America into another war to stay out of jail, whatever the consequences for Israel \u2013 let alone POTUS,\u201d he added.Krieg said Trump was prioritising the use of \u201ccoercive leverage\u201d through his endorsement of Netanyahu but not necessarily \u201cwar over diplomacy\u201d.\u00a0\u201cThe naval blockade is hurting Iran considerably and Washington believes time is working in its favour. Trump\u2019s calculation is that Iran will eventually accept nuclear concessions and reopen Hormuz, without Washington having to offer significant concessions first,\u201d he argued.\u201cHis endorsement reinforces the military threat underpinning that strategy. But it does not mean diplomacy is finished. Trump still wants a deal he can present as a victory. The danger is that Tehran increasingly believes it must escalate to improve its bargaining position.\u201dWhat is next?Vakil explained that, while Trump\u2019s declaration of support for Netanyahu had signalled renewed political alignment with Israel and left the door open for future joint military action, it also makes it \u201charder for Trump to distance himself from the war or portray the US as having been reluctantly drawn into it\u201d.\u201cHe is explicitly taking ownership of the partnership and its military campaign against Iran. However, the endorsement does not necessarily mean that the two leaders have agreed on another operation, nor does it settle the question of who initially pushed hardest for war,\u201d she said.Vakil added that for Tehran, the statement will reinforce the belief of Iranian leaders that there is \u201clittle meaningful distinction between US and Israeli objectives.\u201d\u201cAt the same time, Trump\u2019s suggestion that he is reluctant to confront Iran without Netanyahu could be interpreted as evidence of the limits of Washington\u2019s appetite for another war.\u201dMeanwhile, while Trump has said that he would not attack Iran before the November midterms, several US media outlets have reported that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to relaunch attacks before voters head to the polls.Last week, US news outlet Axios reported, citing both US and Israeli officials, that both Trump and Netanyahu had spoken about launching a major new operation against Iran ahead of the elections in both countries.For Krieg, the likelihood that the US and Israel launch an attack on Iran remains low, assuming there is no Iranian strike that forces a response.\u201cThe more dangerous window opens after November 3 [US midterms], when those electoral constraints disappear. 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