The only Israel boycott that's actually working
After all, when the war with Iran is over, and the only things left here are cockroaches and Migron, this government will still have the only thing it's ever really needed: Someone else to blame.
By Bradley Burston
History, to take license with John Lennon, is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Somewhere inside, beneath the air of cheesy royalty, behind the wall of yes men and the armored SUVs of his motorcades, when Benjamin Netanyahu mulls his place in history, he knows what he has to show for it.
It's not a pretty sight.
Netanyahu - and, no less, his history-minded grand vizier Ehud Barak - do not want to be remembered as the two former prime ministers who could have forged peace deals with Syria, the Palestinians, Lebanon and the Saudis in the 1990s, and who, in indecision and inaction, in weakness and bad judgment, paved the way for the bloodshed and wars of the disastrous last decade, and the international isolation that remains.
Nor do they want to go down as the mini-tycoon flunkeys of mega-tycoons, denying the basic hopes of a mass middle class social justice movement. Nor as rulers whose only real interest is the throne, rulers who will say anything, legalize anything, outlaw anything, if it means another month or year in office.
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