Poll: 92% of Israeli Settlers Admit Defeat Against Iran

Date: 21 June 2026 - 23:05

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TEL AVIV (Dispatches) – In a historic repudiation of Benjamin Netanyahu’s military adventurism, an overwhelming 92.1 percent of Israeli settlers believe Iran emerged as the victor from the recent war and subsequent U.S.-Iran agreement, according to a poll published Sunday that lays bare the catastrophic failure of Israeli leadership.
The survey, conducted by the Hebrew University of Al-Quds in collaboration with the Agam Institute among 3,644 respondents between June 17 and 20, paints a devastating picture of Israel’s strategic position.
Even among Netanyahu’s right-wing voter base, 93.1 percent acknowledged that Iran has won. A staggering 82.9 percent of Israeli settlers believe the war weakened their illegal entity’s long-term security, while 86 percent view the outcome negatively and 63.2 percent oppose the U.S.-Iran agreement.
The war, launched on February 28 in coordination with the United States, was sold to the Israeli settler public on three key promises: eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile threat, degrading Tehran’s regional axis of resistance allies, and sparking regime change in Tehran.
None of these objectives have been achieved. According to the poll, 87.8 percent of Israeli settlers believe the Zionist entity failed to achieve any of its objectives.
Writing in the Guardian, veteran foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall delivered a blistering verdict: Netanyahu will be remembered as “the man who put the Middle East to the sword.”
His “solution” to every problem—whether Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran—was always the same: “extreme, often lawless violence that invariably made matters worse.”
The unprovoked, illegal war against Iran was the ultimate expression of the Netanyahu doctrine—”the disproportionate application of brute force”—and it has failed spectacularly.
Israeli media have been equally scathing. Ynet, one of Israel’s leading news portals, declared that “Iran has withstood serious attacks, and by drawing on its remaining strength, it has managed to bring the United States to its knees.”
The portal added: “It was supposed to be the United States’ best days as a world power, but the grandiose names of the operations against Iran, America’s ‘Epic Fury’ and Israel’s ‘Roaring Lion,’ have been shattered to pieces”.
Perhaps the most significant strategic gain for Iran is the unprecedented rupture in U.S.-Israel relations. Tisdall reported that Trump and Netanyahu are “barely on speaking terms,” with the U.S. president launching “profanity-laden personal attacks” on the Israeli leader. The White House blames Netanyahu for drawing the U.S. into an “unwinnable fight” on the basis of “glib predictions of easy victory and regime collapse”.
Speaking after the G7 summit, Trump eviscerated Netanyahu’s red lines. He declared Iran must be allowed to enrich uranium, has a right to ballistic missiles, and should have billions in frozen assets returned.
The U.S. backed Iran’s demand for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Lebanon—a position underscored by Vice President JD Vance, who ordered Netanyahu to stop fighting and warned that the U.S. is “the only powerful ally” Israel has left.
Israeli analysts have confirmed the catastrophic implications. Former intelligence officer Danny Citrinowicz described the U.S.-Iran deal as nothing less than a “political and security catastrophe for Israel.”
Sima Shine, another former intelligence officer with Israel’s so-called institute for security studies, noted that “the
issues that are important to Israel, such as the nuclear one, are left for some future that we don’t know”.
Iran has successfully leveraged its position to extract major concessions. The U.S.-backed memorandum includes the unfreezing of billions in Iranian assets, a U.S.-backed reconstruction plan worth at least $300 billion, and crucially, Iranian acknowledgment that it will not acquire nuclear weapons—a position Tehran has long maintained. Iran retains its fundamental right to uranium enrichment and ballistic missile programs.
Citrinowicz concluded: “At the end of the day, Iran is becoming stronger, and Israel has no ability to influence the U.S. president’s decisions.” Michael Milshtein, an expert on Israeli military affairs, said the agreement leaves Israel in a weaker position than before the war on all fronts, arguing that “Netanyahu brought us to a point of very weak leverage”.
Netanyahu’s political career now lies in ruins. Support for his premiership has plummeted from 40.5 percent in early March to 29.4 percent in June. Nearly three-quarters of Israeli settlers do not believe his claims of military achievements, and 56.4 percent rate his war management as “failed” or “poor”.
Tisdall concluded: “Don’t make more trouble or more excuses, Bibi. Don’t wait to be pushed or sacked. Resign.”