@cstross

None of these answers really deal with the question I of relevance. In fact they are just getting further into the weeds of armchair political science. I can just imagine some bully kicking the shit out of a kid on the playground and everyone here sitting around discussing the bully's troubled childhood, violent computer games, lead exposure and aggression...

We were talking about how Netanyahu is on a rampage to stay in power. That feels like the only salient point here.