There is no logical reason to suggest that Benjamin Netanyahu's second one hundred days as the head of the Israeli government will be better than his first one hundred days as the leader of the known fascistic gang: While he clearly does not have any real policies, he also suffers from paranoia, in addition to being an unstable individual and a political failure. Meanwhile, he easily succumbs to pressure and extortion, and has managed to gather around him a shambolic and incompetent team that has since shocked the senior members of his government. I have not come up with the above mentioned qualities on my own. In fact, I have read them in the Israeli press itself, which also means that he is actually much worse than that. In reality, he is first and foremost an enemy of peace, and a professional impostor, who will attempt to eliminate the Palestinian people itself, and not just the latter's dream of an independent state. He seeks to do so by transferring them to the camps where they are now, or to the rest of the world so that Palestine becomes a purely Jewish country. In a slip of the tongue during his meeting with the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Netanyahu was exposed to be rotten by name and rotten by nature [as Netan means rot in Arabic]: He refused to stop building settlements or to dismantle existing settlements, and told the minister that Judea and Samaria, i.e. the West Bank, will not become another Judenrein (a land cleansed of Jews.) He thus used an old and known Nazi term or slogan to denote Palestinian territory, effectively rendering him a Neo-Nazi, or a Zio-Nazi. Perhaps Netanyahu has appointed Avigdor Lieberman in the coalition government to ensure that there is someone in power who is even lowlier than him: Lieberman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a former brothel guard from Moldova, whom no one respects or wants to deal with. Even French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked Netanyahu to replace Lieberman with Tzipi Livni, something that has angered the foreign minister, and prompted Netanyahu to apologize and try and appease him, as he had initially hid Sarkozy's opinion about Lieberman from the latter until the media revealed it all. Although the French President received many criticisms from the Israelis for interfering in their internal affairs, I believe that Sarkozy spoke thus only because he considers himself “one of them”, i.e. the Israelis, along with his own foreign minister, and wishes for Netanyahu nothing but success in his endeavours. Meanwhile, the Americans are dealing with Defense Minister Ehud Barak as if he were the Foreign Minister. This is especially true when he negotiated with them regarding the settlements and other issues, and managed to present them with many personal commitments in this regard. I find Barak to be quite a “phenomenon” within the Ministry, in particular when he, in a previous Israeli public opinion poll, won the title of “the most hated figure in Israel”, but then came first in the latest poll on the performance of the Benjamin Netanyahu's government, with 61 percent of Israelis having said that they trust him more than any other minister. Furthermore, I consider this poll a verdict against the government. If the worst Minister at the time of Ehud Olmert - who is facing trial on charges of corruption and money laundering - is now the best minister under Netanyahu, the reader can objectively judge the quality of the current ministers, on the sole basis of the Israeli public opinion itself (Neither me nor any other Arab commentator represents the other side). Moreover, the opposition party Kadima distributed statements marking Netanyahu's first one hundred days as Prime Minister, which asserted that “Bibi is still Bibi: 100 Days and No Gains”. Upon hearing about this, Netanyahu lost his temper and was prompted to hold a press conference with his aides without preparation, adding to his problems, in particular when he was heard near the end saying that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, and David Axlerod, an adviser to Obama, “were self-hating Jews”. This is despite the fact that Emmanuel had left America to serve in the Israeli army, while Axlerod strongly supports Israel, heart and mind. In this volatile domestic situation, even the Israeli army was affected in a time this institution is treated in Israel as being sacrosanct. The manner in which the deputy chief of staff was appointed was, for instance, an example of the turmoil and tension prevailing today over Israeli affairs. While Minister of Defense Ehud Barak had nominated a General for the post, the chief of staff had nominated another, and while these nominations were compromises themselves, Barak rejected Ashkenazi's candidate, the latter also rejected Barak's candidate. In the end, they chose a third candidate, Benny Ganz, as the new deputy chief of staff, which the Israeli press considered the “mother of all compromises” or settlements. Nonetheless, there is no reason whatsoever that Arab readers should be pleased about my information about Israel, which I pick from the Israeli press. This is because Netanyahu's weakness is only internal, but when it comes to dealing with us, he is like an injured predator. He is thus even more dangerous and happens to enjoy strong support from many powers. In this vein, when President Obama met with the leaders of the Jewish organizations in Washington, they demanded that he visit Israel, like he visited Cairo from where he addressed Muslims. That is, they are equating a country of five million thieves who stole the Palestinians' lands, murdered them, and rendered the rest of them homeless refugees, to 1.2 billion Muslims around the world. I will continue tomorrow.
