The Netanyahu investigations
Regarding “Gabbay: Netanyahu era is over” (February 22), we are now up to Case 4000 (and counting?). The suggestion in Case 4000 is that perhaps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was attempting to get favorable media coverage that would offset the generally hostile coverage. (I don’t think the media have forgiven themselves for being so wrong in their exit poll predictions for 2015 election.)
Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to be taken out any time soon by the legal process currently underway, which by all accounts will take 12 months or longer to get started. Rather, this will occur by the defection of his coalition partners, both outside and inside the Likud, and I am certain that this is the strategy of the police.
In most other democracies, those losing the election resign to lick their wounds, whereas in Israel, they merely go on to fight another round. Many of these lawmakers ran against Mr. Netanyahu in the last election or previously, so we are familiar with their policies.
I am certain that Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and other bad players are carefully monitoring the situation in the hope that if Israel goes to early elections, they can take advantage and instigate open warfare. Of course, in their regimes, they are not bothered by pesky bad press, and we know how they deal with errant journalists they might have.
DAVID SMITH
Ra’anana
Thank you, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and thank you, Isi Leibler, for expressing so well what I think the majority of us have been feeling (“Dysfunctional politics and disgraceful behavior,” Candidly Speaking, February 21)! The witch-hunt against the Netanyahus has been beyond disgraceful, and unfortunately, The Jerusalem Post hasn’t given us a day’s break from its front-page, non-stop Bibi-bashing! It’s really awful!
Judaism has a basic principal of hakarat hatov (appreciating the good). Prime Minister Netanyahu has done an amazing job at leading us through thick and thin, a job that nobody else can do capably. Is this is the appreciation we show him?
Nobody is perfect, but Bibi has certainly proved to be the best man for the job at this point in history.
LEAH S. WOLF Meitar