It's only a matter of time until Netanyahu falls

If our brains were working, Israel would have fought the U.S. Congress' proposal to cut back PA funds. We have no interest in a situation whereby the PA does not have money to pay its security services.

By Yoel Marcus

Something bad happens to us during the holiday period. Not only is work not work, not only is it unclear what's open and what's closed and whether the clock is showing summer time or winter time - official intelligence also goes on vacation.

You have to be emptyheaded in order to get to a situation in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel - the only leader in Europe, if not in the entire world, who treats us with understanding and empathy - loses trust and is disappointed in our prime minister.

The last straw that made Merkel blow a fuse was the approval of the plan to build 1,100 apartments in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood. All of Benjamin Netanyahu's explanations to the effect that Gilo is a part of Jewish Jerusalem sounded like a provocation that brought about the loss of Israel's last friend in Europe.

Very self-satisfied with his American English, Bibi both delivers speeches and allows himself to twist the world around his little finger with his silence. Take for example what is happening between Congress and President Barack Obama on the subject of financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. In Congress a trend is taking shape to cut back assistance to the Palestinians, while we remain silent and perhaps are even fueling this trend, which was described by a political observer as stupid. Palestinian Authority President Salam Fayyad is the most positive person in the PA. If our brains were working, Israel would have fought against the cutback. It has no interest in a situation whereby the PA will not have money to pay its security services.

in full: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/it-s-only-a-matter-of-time-until-netanyahu-falls-1.388655

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