Well, Communications Minister Netanyahu’s mood recently hasn’t just been his typical obsession to control, smash, run over, weaken and strike at the pockets of Israel’s free press. It’s simply a mood of running amok.

Every schoolchild knows that Netanyahu’s cynical move to postpone the launch of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation by a year and a half (a move in which he was joined by Histadrut union chief Avi Nissenkorn for his own reasons), is designed both to give the corporation an undignified burial and leave the weakened, needy and dying Israel Broadcasting Authority in place.