On opportunities – Yossi Melman in Haaretz:

‘As I first published about two years ago, in 2014, against the background of the 2014 Gaza War, then-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, the IDF Chief of General Staff, Aviv Kochavi, and other top generals and officials, flew to Jeddah. There, they met with the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who proposed a years-long cease-fire in Gaza, reconstruction of the Strip, and initiation of diplomatic moves vis-à-vis the Palestinian Authority.
These were supposed to lead to a regional arrangement, with the support of the entire Arab and Muslim world, which would culminate with Saudi Arabia establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. The heads of the intelligence community conveyed the proposal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who initially supported it, but then retreated out of fear of the reaction of the right-wing and the settlers.’

Read the complete article (about the Mossad and some of its failures) here.

Already in 2014 Bibi was a hostage of the settlers and their Messianism.

The passion and the vengeance with which these forces are happy to turn Israel into a pariah state can be compared to some of the evangelists in the US. The same pattern can be seen; destruction is needed in order to reach true salvation.