Personally, I think that your being too hard on Netanyahu. He's in a heckuva spot: On one side, the Palestinians are in a constant state of terrorist upheaval, and the Muslim enemy is frankly winning the war of demographics. Then, Netanyahu also has dreamers in his own nation who insist on peace at any price. So Netanyahu looks to America, in hopes of some measure of support, and he sees a surly punk in the While House, clearly a Muslim sympathizer if not a closet Muslim. The surly punk in the White House looks to be dying politically, and like Carter 30 years ago, the surly punk is banking that some sort of phoney peace plan will yet save his presidency.
Let's be charitable: That's a helluva spot for Netanyahu. However, I think that Netanyahu has played it smart ..... His demands for negotiations involve recognition of Israel's right to exist, something he knows that no Palestinians leader can agree to in public (see Sadat, Anwar, the late). So, the talks will inevitably go bust, and Netanyahu jets back to Israel, stands in front of the TV cameras, shrugs his shoulders, and says, "Well, I tried, but they wouldn't budge." And then life goes on.
The problem is not Netanyahu, but this (and this all over the world), a quisling left and Muslim demographics.
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