The Clockwork Bibi

Bibi Netanyahu

By Steven Jonas

For quite some time I have written on the policies of the right-wing Israeli governments towards the original inhabitants of the lands that currently constitute the State of Israel plus the “Occupied Territories” (occupied by Israel of course in contravention of a variety of UN resolutions), otherwise known as the Palestinians. In doing this one is invariably driven to the same conclusion: that since the time of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent slow, grinding death of the so-called “Oslo Peace Process,” with the almost uninterrupted run of right-wing Israeli governments (under the general label of “Likud”), any settlement other than that resulting from the expulsion of all Arabs living in the so-called “Land of Israel,” other than those who are citizens of the State of Israel (and maybe them too), is not in the cards. This policy is of course not openly stated, but every action, and inaction, taken by Likud-led governments in relation to the Palestinian people living within their orbit would seem to reinforce this conclusion.

In terms of the current fighting concerning the Gaza Strip and what may-or-may-not be an extensive underground there, such conflicts, for one given reason or another, arise on a regular basis. And for as long as Bibi Netanyahu has been in power (and even before him), the timing of these outbreaks of these conflicts do not seem to be coincidental. In fact, during his tenure in office they invariably coincide with some particular trouble that “Bibi” is in. And so, you might ask, how does that apply to this one? Well, for one thing Bibi has lost the best facilitator-in-Washington he has ever had, represented in the Middle East by his jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, Jared the Kush.

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Source: OpEdNews