Netanyahu's paranoia extends to 'self-hating Jews' Emanuel and Axelrod

[IndianaGreen]

Last update - 17:53 09/07/2009

Netanyahu's paranoia extends to 'self-hating Jews' Emanuel and Axelrod

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

At about 3:15 P.M. yesterday, the government's 100th day in office, political correspondents' beepers went off. In an unprecedented move, the Prime Minister's Bureau was inviting the correspondents to a press conference at the Knesset that was slated to begin in 15 minutes. This was the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's panicked, disproportionate response to the criticism senior Kadima politicians had leveled at him three hours earlier.

Kadima MKs had attacked Netanyahu at a press conference under the banner "100 days, zero gains. It's the same old Bibi." Later, Kadima supporters handed out stickers with anti-Netanyahu slogans in the Knesset cafeteria.

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Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American administration wants him out of office. Two months after his visit to Washington, he is still finding it difficult to communication normally with the White House. To appreciate the depth of his paranoia, it is enough to hear how he refers to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama's senior aides: as "self-hating Jews."

"He thought that his speech at Bar-Ilan would become mandatory reading at schools in the United States, and when he realized that Obama gave no such order, he went back to being frustrated," one of his associates said.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098853.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. He sounds as though he's getting even loonier than ever.

Some of this reminds me of stories I've read about Nixon toward the end of his career.

I hope that he *is* soon out of office.