It is very difficult for the Netanyahu-haters of all types and stripes to digest the unconcealed friendship of the President of the United States with the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu has met with Trump six times in the course of the first year of the former's tenure, before each of which the doom-sayers predicted that this time, but really and truly, Trump will clash with Netanyahu and strike him a resounding blow to send him flying. And yet, time after time, the bleak and black forecasts of those savant commentators ended up mistaken. Just wait and see — this time it will happen. It is altogether inconceivable that the American president can harbor any positive sentiments towards the most despised head of state in all of the Middle East — in their opinion, to be sure.
Who can forget the well publicized confrontation between the two on the eve of "Operation: A Rising Lion," when all the reports from Washington and Jerusalem spoke about how now, at long last, it is coming, indeed and for real, when the American president will strike out, with unsheathed sword and spear, against the Israeli prime minister. Finally, at long last, the pessimistic predictions will bear fruit, one after the other.
Except, that this time as well, all of these analysts had to eat their hats (which they didn't possess), when it became clear in one moment, that it was all a deceptive guile cooked up by these two friends in order to put to sleep the Iranian awareness prior to a magnum attack in which the U.S. also participated.
And thus did it continue, time after time, while not one of all those not-so-scholarly columnists agreed to give up the fight, like determined lottery ticket-buyers who have already spent huge sums, in vain, and persist in believing that some day, even this time, they will hit the jackpot. Perhaps this once, they will be able to discern a hint of contention, of divided opinions, of some small difference of view between the two.
Meanwhile, it hasn't happened. Or even better, it has turned topsy-turvy. The rapport between these two heads-of-state is driving them nuts. "Who can guarantee that Trump's show of force will not boomerang against us?" asks one of those veteran doomsday analysts who would rejoice in seeing the American president sink his talons, or better yet, his non-diplomatic sayings into the flesh of the Israeli prime minister so that he could blithely and exultantly declare: " We told you so!"
Little does it bother them that this might be counterproductive to their own country's interests so long as ultimately, it will harm Netanyahu. On that day, if G-d forbid, it were to happen, they will celebrate as they have not done for a long, long time. Just like that man who rejoiced at the sight of his home going up in flames, gloating that "at long last, those mice who disrupt my sleep, will also burn to death."
