Netanyahu's terrible week brought existential anxiety back into our lives - voila! news. It was a week that revealed to Israel and the world a Netanyahu we had not yet met.
A prime minister in Israel would thrive in such situations: promise one thing, threaten another, find some convoluted wording that lets each side believe he left with loot in his hand. Today's Netanyahu is the negative of that man, who could be admired or loathed, but his political wisdom, which he perfected to the level of an art, could not be denied.