Wholeheartedly agree. My point; the status quo gets us nowhere, and the intransigence is significant on both sides; especially when Netanyahu is in charge.
Wholeheartedly agree. My point; the status quo gets us nowhere, and the intransigence is significant on both sides; especially when Netanyahu is in charge.
Bibi coddles those people at his own risk, but he probably couldn't survive in office without them, since it's doubtful the opposition would bail him out if he cut them loose.
Plus his best chance to stay out of jail is to remain PM, so the extremists have the leverage and can practice political extortion. The only prescription for that is for the US to put its thumb on the other scale - which it has tried fitfully to do.
I've toyed half seriously with the idea of Israel's president granting Bibi a preemptive pardon to make it more palatable for him to risk his job. Crazy, I know.
True, but Bibi wonтАЩt survive this regardless of the outcome. His own party has disavowed him. He and the religious wing-nuts are living on borrowed time.
When at war, the criticism in Israel stops for the greater good. When this is over, so is BibiтАЩs career and that of his right-wing cohorts.
Wholeheartedly agree. My point; the status quo gets us nowhere, and the intransigence is significant on both sides; especially when Netanyahu is in charge.
Bibi coddles those people at his own risk, but he probably couldn't survive in office without them, since it's doubtful the opposition would bail him out if he cut them loose.
Plus his best chance to stay out of jail is to remain PM, so the extremists have the leverage and can practice political extortion. The only prescription for that is for the US to put its thumb on the other scale - which it has tried fitfully to do.
I've toyed half seriously with the idea of Israel's president granting Bibi a preemptive pardon to make it more palatable for him to risk his job. Crazy, I know.
True, but Bibi wonтАЩt survive this regardless of the outcome. His own party has disavowed him. He and the religious wing-nuts are living on borrowed time.
When at war, the criticism in Israel stops for the greater good. When this is over, so is BibiтАЩs career and that of his right-wing cohorts.