Haaretz: Netanyahu Is Living in La-la Land

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It's chaotic again in the occupied Palestinian territories amidst heroic Palestinian operations targeting the illegal settlers of their annexed land. Shocked are the "Israelis" as Palestinians went on a stabbing-car operation spree. To make things even worse, the "Israeli" settlers were not comforted by their PM who according to "Israeli" outlets "lives in La-la land".

In his speech to the Knesset, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered no solutions and no hope for bringing an end to the stabbing spree that had stunned "Israelis".

Netanyahu promised the Knesset that "we will defeat this wave of terror like we did the others..." words that didn't seem to ease the "Israeli" settlers' anxiousness.

War-weathered "Israeli" settlers are feeling helpless in the wake of 'unpredictable' heroic operations and their Primer is "living in La-la land".

What's left for a leader who habitually boasted that during his many years in office, and thanks to his policies, terror had disappeared, and now, by a twist of fate, must address the people's representatives just a few kilometers from the site of incessant operations?

Only to remind listeners that it could be worse and that it has been worse; and, naturally, to castigate his political opponents and make them the exclusive culprits. When all is calm, it's him and his "policies." When everything starts to fall apart, it's suddenly the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, and Haneen Zoabi and Basel Ghattas.

The Knesset on the first day of its winter session, which is meant to be somewhat festive, was greeted yesterday by a very stressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has no solutions, he has no formulas, and he offers no guidance for stopping the heroic stabbing spree. It's not up to him; it's not even up to the one who opposition leader Isaac Herzog refers to as "the self-designated prime minister, Naftali Bennett."

Netanyahu is rattled from both the security and political perspectives. It's hard to know which of the two matters to him more. His address to the Knesset yesterday reverberated with the results of recent polls indicating a collapse in his standing as "Mr. Security" relative to his two bitter rivals, Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman.

It was a discouraging, depressing speech with nary an encouraging word, without a single statement of a diplomatic nature, and not even half a statement of good will toward the Palestinian leadership that, according to the army and the so-called "Shin Bet" security service, is making quite an effort to calm things down.

On the contrary, Reuven Rivlin, the "Israeli" settler who happens to be the president of the "Israeli" occupied Palestinian territories who spoke before Bibi did and eased the "Israelis" to an extent slammed the current leadership encouraging one "that isn't motivated by fear and does not encourage it. That isn't led, but that leads."

Furthermore, Herzog once again found himself having to promise his suspicious faction colleagues that he has no intention of being a minister and joining Netanyahu's and Bennett's "dead-end, visionless government." However, not all everyone believes him.

Vain "Israeli" promises of tranquility uttered by so-called "Israeli" leaders are constantly shaken by the willful spirit of the Palestinians who refuse to step down and serve the "Israelis" their God-given rights on a golden plate.

Source: Haaretz, Edited by website team