Netanyahu's Very Convenient and Timely War

There's a reason why "Bibi" needed a war and Trump, the ever-idiot was his stooge.

There is a particular genius, of the most morally repellent kind, in being simultaneously the most powerful man in a country and its most besieged defendant. Benjamin Netanyahu has spent six years perfecting this trick, and watching him work, one is struck less by the audacity of it than by how entirely the world has let him get away with it.

The charges, let’s not forget, are not trivial. This is not the stuff of parking tickets or zoning violations. Case 4000, the one that keeps Israeli prosecutors up at night, alleges that Netanyahu, while serving as his own communications minister, handed regulatory gifts to a telecom mogul named Shaul Elovitch in exchange for favorable coverage on Walla! News, a site Elovitch happened to own. Media coverage as currency. The headline practically writes itself, which is perhaps why he wanted to control the headlines. There is also the gifts affair: the cigars, the champagne, the jewelry, the whole perfumed arrangement with Hollywood producer Arnon M…