More than half of Israelis said in a poll conducted Wednesday that neither Israel nor Hamas have emerged victorious from the fighting in Gaza, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has secured a “great military and political achievement” and dealt Hamas a “heavy blow.” According to the poll, the Zionist center-left parties like Labour and Meretz are not gaining momentum and do not reach the number of seats in the Knesset held in the previous elections. In the poll Hadash, who opposed the deadly war in Gaza, received 6 seats, more than the 4 seats held now. But the right is still on the rise in Israel.

With 54 percent said in a Haaretz-Dialog poll there was no winner, about a quarter said Israel won and 16 percent said Hamas did. The poll also found that half of Israelis expressed satisfaction with Netanyahu’s conduct during the Israel-Hamas fighting that ended with a cease-fire deal the day before – an improvement over his 40 percent satisfaction rate of July 7, the day before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, but a significant drop over his performance early this month. When Israelis were asked on August 5 what they thought of Netanyahu’s performance during the war, 77 percent of respondents in the Haaretz-Dialog poll characterized his conduct as either “good” or “excellent.”

The most recent Haaretz-Dialog poll, conducted Wednesday and supervised by Prof. Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University, also found that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had an approval rating of 55 percent and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reached 29 percent, in both cases just two percentage points lower than their July 7 baseline ratings, within the margin of error of 4.64 percent.

A Channel 2 poll Monday showed that on Aug 25 — 49 days into Operation Protective Edge — usually 38 percent of Israelis “supported” Netanyahu, while a full 50% were dissatisfied. That series represented a high decrease for Netanyahu and a solid decrease over a march of Operation Protective Edge. Just 4 days previously, on Aug 21, his capitulation rating was 55%; and 3 weeks previously, on Aug 5, his capitulation rating stood during 63%. On July 23, shortly after a start of a belligerent operation in Gaza directed during destroying Hamas’s “terror tunnels,” Netanyahu’s capitulation rating was 82%.