Benjamin Netanyahu brushes aside hopes of a truce, towards a “perpetual war” in Gaza?. The Israeli government, and more particularly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "is clearly not inclined to accept any compromise or ceasefire agreement at the moment", judges Hugh Lovatt, researcher within the program Middle East and North Africa from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) “Ultimately, what the Israeli Prime Minister says and what he is probably doing it for his political survival,” says Lovatt.