Benjamin Netanyahu is a killer. His violence, war crimes and self-serving will haunt the world for generations. This is a man who has achieved the near-impossible: transforming a nation with legitimate security concerns into a pariah state while simultaneously making himself the greatest threat to Israeli survival since the founding of the republic. It is a performance so breathtakingly cynical, so utterly divorced from any recognizable moral framework, that one begins to suspect we are witnessing not mere political corruption but something approaching sociopathy in action.
The arithmetic of Netanyahu's "leadership" reads like a ledger from hell. Sixty-one thousand Palestinians dead—a third of them children whose only crime was existing in the wrong place while Netanyahu pursued his personal salvation through mass slaughter. Fifty Israeli hostages abandoned to rot in tunnels for 667 days while their families prostrate themselves before a man who has clearly decided their children are a…
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