12.03.2015 - 19:21 [ Mondo Weiss ]

We may not have Netanyahu to kick around anymore

In the last 24 hours, the conventional wisdom inside the journalism community has solidified: people are whispering that it’s bedtime for Bibi, Benjamin Netanyahu is fading in the Israeli elections. That he made a historic blunder by trying to go over Obama’s head and address both Houses of Congress last week, that Israeli Jews are wise to the damage he has done to the US-Israel relationship that is the lifeline of the Jewish state, and they want him gone, and they are abandoning Likud.