From Wallwritings
Bibi Netanyahu has long begged for others to recognize that "Israel is a Jewish state." No one has agreed to do so. So Bibi and his Likud right-wing party did it for themselves.
Netanyahu is the Donald Trump of the Mediterranean. Both men are driven by a desperate need for political and economic power for its own sake, coupled with an equally strong need to be loved. Donald wants the love for himself and his family. Bibi seeks love for himself and his tribe.
They arrived on the world political stage at just the moment to sustain each other.
In its sham negotiations with the Palestinian people, recognizing Israel as the Jewish state was always Israel's basic demand. Bibi does not care that it is impossible to have a state that is a democracy of exclusively Jewish people. To identify Israel as a Jewish democracy is to label the nation with an oxymoron.
Both Trump and Bibi embrace non-democratic tyrants. Donald and Vladimir Putin are currently cementing their affair in public. Most recent example: The "would/wouldn't" game Trump played against his own intelligence agencies.
Seattle-based Jewish blogger Richard Silverstein, writes that, like Trump, "Bibi Netanyahu, desperate to find a few paltry allies somewhere, anywhere, has cultivated a bromance with Hungary's Viktor Orban. Orban isn't such a metzieh (Yiddish for 'a find'). He is the far-right, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic anti-Semitic premier of Hungary. Netanyahu is the far right, Islamophobic, racist, anti-refugee-PM of Israel."
Donald Trump's embrace of strongmen tyrants will not be his downfall, even though he embraces Russian President Vlad Putin, who has intervened in our 2016 presidential election and is busy working to do the same in our 2018 mid-term election.
American establishment types are outraged over Trump's blatant and undisguised racism. But Republicans nominated him while Democrats failed to defeat him. Those who voted for him, and those who did not oppose him with vigor, gave him a big electric train to keep him amused. The train is called, "the most powerful job in the world."
Nor will Trump's cringe-inducing sexual conduct and mindset bring him down. His sexual and financial conduct look to those who swear by him, as just good old Trump doing his thing. And even among among voters not enamored of him, at least he is neither Hillary nor Barack.
Will the Mueller investigations deliver hope? Is impeachment a way to take back that electric train? Probably not. Impeachment would simply give Vice President Mike Pence the White House, where he would be a slicker, more rational Trump.
Unless Pence is dragged down with Trump by either Mueller or impeachment, he is next in line.
A conservative radio and TV talk show host in the 1990s. Pence successfully ran for Congress in 2000 where he became the House Republican conference chairman, before being elected governor of Indiana in 2012. The Republican party made him Trump's running mate.
Trump's soulmate Netanyahu is confronting legal findings in Israel, which could lead to his ouster. But just as Trump could be replaced by Pence, Bibi is the leader of the right-wing Likud which would replace him with an equally hard-right leader.
The two nations, partners in oppression, are now radically right in political outlook. Opposition parties in Israel and the U.S. show few signs of being able to change that outlook anytime soon.
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