The man who defeated nobody: Netanyahu’s theatre of ruin

Benjamin Netanyahu has defeated nobody. Not one enemy. Not one objective. After Gaza, after Lebanon, after Syria, after Iran, after all the airstrikes and the assassinations and the pager operations and the ground incursions and the flag-waving declarations of historic triumph, he has defeated absolutely nobody. Strip away the propaganda. Set aside the theatrical press conferences in which this man, indicted for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, wraps himself in the flag of the Jewish people and declares himself the guardian of Western civilization. What you are left with is a leader who expanded a war he could not win to survive a trial he cannot escape. A man who gambled his nation’s military strength, its economic stability, its […]