Netanyahu reportedly bows to American pressure regarding who should be next Israeli defense minister, asks for “a little patience.”

At the age of 73 and starting his sixth term as prime minister, Netanyahu is Israel’s undisputed leader. He has the freedom to be who he really is.

The sovereignty bid guaranteed under the 2020 proposal was nipped in the bud because parts of Israel’s security establishment are wedded to a flawed paradigm.

A day after learning that there have been over 3700 terrorist attacks this year, and that Israel will withhold NIS 600 million from the PA over its ‘pay to slay’ policy, reports indicate that government ministries are transferring money to Ramallah through a secret fund.

“There’s nothing left of Palestinian democracy,” says attorney Maurice Hirsch, the head of legal strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, which produced the report.

The lesson is that threats against Benjamin Netanyahu did not disappear the moment he ceased being prime minister.

In the current Israeli political reality, everything is personal. Gone are the days when politicians argued over policy and ideology.

Once our tiny country joins the ranks of Europe’s energy suppliers in the winter of 2022, power relations will have fundamentally changed