The unseemly scramble of ministers and politicians to fly to Paris on Sunday perfectly encapsulates the current situation of Israeli politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t even planning to go, citing security issues, but when it transpired that his main rivals for right-wing votes, ministers Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett as well as Eli Yishai, the leader of a new right-wing Haredi party, were all flying, security was swept aside and a special El Al plane chartered.