Follow Jan. 16, 2021 Ever since the 2000 election, about 20 years ago, the word peace, the dominant term of the previous decade, was a no-no in political campaigns. Not anymore. “The left blathers, Netanyahu makes peace,” proudly declares one of the first Likud campaign videos. This is somewhat reminiscent of the Labor Party’s defensive campaign in the 1990s – “Rabin makes history, the right is hysterical.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is extolling and praising the agreements he has signed with Arab countries far from our borders, depicting a new Middle East and speaking, his eyes sparkling, about the glorious future anticipated for the region. The man who said ,“we will forever live by our sword" has become a Shimon Peres clone.