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Jun. 6, 2021 2:46 AM
When Israel launched Operation Guardian of the Walls last month, protesters outside the Jerusalem home of Benjamin Netanyahu said knowingly that the prime minister went to war for the sole purpose of thwarting a coalition to replace him. They claimed later that Netanyahu would continue his unrestrained attacks on the Gaza Strip until Yair Lapid’s mandate to form a government expired. But Netanyahu ended this needless and unsound Israel Air Force show in 10 days.
Now the government of Naftali Bennett is on the verge of taking office, but the Balfour Street protesters continue to spin tales of horror: The Netanyahus will refuse to leave the official residence; Bennett’s life is in danger; Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin will block the necessary vote to approve the new government; Netanyahu will bomb Iran; the end of the world is nigh. Similar prophecies of doom were voiced at the end of the term of his more dangerous ideological twin, Donald Trump, and most of those also did not come true. The former president retired to Mar-a-Lago, and Joe Biden is the man in the White House.