Despite all avowals to the contrary, Bibi's never wanted peace with Palestine. And he may well have created an Israel that now agrees with him.
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With the old peace process precariously poised between Palestinian flirtations with seeking international redress, U.S. congressional threats to funding, and Middle East Quartet incantations to resume negotiations, October promises to be just as rhetorically intense on the Israel-Palestine front as was the long-awaited September. Much depends on one's reading of Israel's man at the helm -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Returning home from a week of diplomatic meet-and-greets and speechifying at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Bibi (to use his nickname) may not have been feted by the parades awaiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but he could take comfort in a sight even more edifying to a politician -- a boost in his
poll numbers. The Israeli media had few kind words for its prime minister, with headlines suggesting he gave a speech devoid of hope and with leading
Yedioth Ahronoth columnist Sima Kadmon describing his address as "demagoguery. Netanyahu deserves an Oscar, not a peace agreement." The rival
Maariv newspaper's chief columnist, Ben Caspit,
suggested that the Netanyahu "ship continues to sail happily towards the iceberg, and this time instead of music, we are hearing fiery speeches from the upper deck." Enough of the Israeli public apparently thought otherwise.
After repeated warnings of a "September diplomatic tsunami" for Israel, the sun still appeared to be rising in the east, and the waters of the Mediterranean were still lapping at the beaches in Tel Aviv. Israelis still experienced no tangible consequences for the state's occupation of Palestinian territories. Netanyahu enjoyed a similar dichotomy of reaction after his
speech to U.S. Congress and public
dressing-down of President Barack Obama this May -- the mainstream media commentariat tutted at their leader, while a majority of his public was high-fiving Netanyahu's chutzpah.
Comment: By now it's pretty undeniable and clear that Israel's prime minister is a
psychopath. And journalists who try to figure out and study Netanyahu's "strategy" or his vision for a full blown fascist state would benefit greatly from educating themselves on the topic of psychopathy, pathocracy and ponerization of the masses as described in
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes by Andrew M. Lobaczewski.
The fact is, regardless of Netanyahu's "contribution", Israel is a malignant and militant pathocracy, and has been like since it's fraudulent and bloody inception. And Netanyahu's recent shameless machinations are all part of a natural progression of pathology, with Israel and its citizens providing a fertile ground for even further insanity.
To learn more about Benjamin Netanyahu and his political history, read
Netanyahu, Israel's Mussolini.
Comment: While we are told "there are no plans for acquiring or deploying this type of technology at this time," you've got to wonder if the technology hasn't already been applied with earlier versions of similar technology to thousands of citizens in the US and abroad. With the Western world leading the rest of the world towards a technological cage, how much longer long can the psychopaths convince the normals that what they do to protect us is really so?
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe