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Netanyahu flails against intational conspiracy, as liberal Zionists seek orange revolution against ‘fading strongman’
Israel’s illusion that it is at the center of the known universe is now shared by a lot of American commentators. The mood is even more intense because liberal Zionists sense a historic election in which Benjamin Netanyahu goes down and is replaced by the center-left. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid is mocking the prime minister’s statements about outside influence:
Netanyahu says “Scandinavia” is trying to topple him. Yes – you heard me – Scandinavia
Gershom Gorenberg explains that Netanyahu has accused European governments, especially Scandinavian ones, of funding campaign to depose him. Gorenberg:
Last refuge of the fading strongman: accuse outside agitators, foreign govts
Chemi Shalev of Haaretz chimes in:
more Bibi rant: “supported by tycoons from Israel and abroad and foreign governments.” [Sounds like Bibi is copying anti-Semitic tracts]
And Shalev reports this:
Netanyahu on Facebook: “Left wing and media elements here and abroad have banded together to bring Tzipi and Bouji to power illegitimately”
Yousef Munayyer cracks:
Netanyahu taking a page out of the Arab dictators playbook already blaming foreign plot to unseat him.
Ofer Neiman says the mood in parts of Israel is like an “Ukrainian Orange Revolution” in which a dictator is being toppled. He also points to foreign efforts, the anti-Netanyahu American initiative V15, led by a former Obama election expert who Wikipedia says is the son of Missouri Baptists and studied at Harvard Divinity School.
“Members of Congress in front rows of @Netanyahu’s speech are now extras in Likud’s newest ad.”
