By Gideon Levy FOR HA ÁRETZ
The time has come to take off our hats to the prime minister. Benjamin
Netanyahu's predictions have proved accurate, and his prophecies are
coming true right before our eyes. Now we can proudly declare that our
government is led by a man of vision, a statesman who has foretold the
future. Even his greatest critics can't deny it; the facts speak for
themselves.
Netanyahu said the whole world is against us. Wasn't he right? He also
said we live under an existential threat. Isn't it beginning to look
like that? Give it another minute and Turkey will be at war with us
too. Netanyahu said there's no chance of reaching an agreement with
the Arabs. Wasn't that spot on? Our prime minister, who saw danger
lurking in every alleyway and enemies waiting around every corner, who
has always taught that there is no hope, who has drummed into us that
we shall forever live by the sword (just as his father the historian
taught him ), knew what he was talking about.
We haven't had anyone like him since David Ben-Gurion. He's a genuine
prophet whose every prediction comes true, one after the other -
someone who can really be proud of his accomplishments. Enough
mockery, enough ridicule. For Netanyahu is not only a prophet; his
leadership has swept up the entire country. There is no longer anyone
who can stop him from realizing his vision, and soon the pundits will
be writing that Netanyahu was right.
This country now has a blind captain in the cockpit, flying his
blindfolded passengers with exemplary precision toward the destination
he envisioned. If there had still been any object of his
scaremongering that had not yet been attained before this week, along
came the outrageous seizure of the flotilla, and that goal too was in
the bag.