Netanytahu just another politician
I was planning to write a letter to express my disappointment in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanytahu for engaging in a desperate election eve ploy to secure the votes of right-wingers, promising that there will never be a Palestinian state on his watch, but then he made the situation even worse, by engineering yet another 180-degree turn.
In 2009, Netanyahu made a historic speech in which he passionately called for a two-state solution, Palestinians living alongside Israelis. The next move was to disavow his speech, eschewing the notion of two states, followed immediately after the election by a pledge to work for a two-state solution.
As Bud Collyer used to say as host of the beloved game show, “To Tell the Truth”, “Will the real Benjamin Netanyahu please stand up?”
How do the right-wingers who voted for the prime minister based upon his no-state pledge feel now? How do the Palestinians feel, hearing two diametrically opposed positions in the same week from their negotiating “partner”? Which position is accurate?
Will anyone trust Benjamin Netanyahu now or believe anything that he says?
Why would they, given that he has proven himself to be nothing but a typical politician, one who seeks to have it both ways, to say or do anything to be re-elected?
When one seeks to understand how it is that so many voters and potential voters have become apathetic, if not hostile to government at all levels, look at the Netanyahu farce of 2015. It was disgraceful.
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Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair