Our ever-attentive audience will recall, just a few scant weeks ago, the orgy of MSM coverage re POTUS Obama's First 100 Days.  A few benighted souls here even scoffed at the whole idea, laughed with amusement and bemusement and mirth, but no matter, I've got a different kettle of fish to fry here.

So, i'm wondering, between chapters of "The Protocols..." how did the unacknolwedged leader of the free world [via the influence any Israeli PM has by virtue of his ability to game the US political system], Israeli PM Bibi Nethanyahu, perform in his first 100 days?  Actuallly, it's not his real first 100 days, as he did occupy the PM position back in the 1990s, but I know that you're able to follow along.

So, what are the signal accomplishments, and the ignominious failures, of this go-around, so far, for this staunch opponent of world terror and stalwart and valiant protector of western civilization?  

Here's my admittedly not-unbiased view :

1. failed [SO FAR] to launch a military strike against Iran;

2. failed [SO FAR] to convince the US to launch a military strike against Iran;

3. failed [SO FAR AND SUPPOSEDLY] to obtain a green light from the US for an Israeli military strike against Iran at a later date TBD;

4. has to endure a very arkward and uncommonfortable multi-day visit to Israel from the Pontifus Maximus;

5. had to suffer through POTUS Obama's decision NOT to visit Israel on Obama's recent swing through the Middle East;

6. had to grit his teeth and endure almost unanimous worldwide applause for POTUS Obama's speech in Cairo, none of which was  pleasing to the ears of Bibi and the Likudniks;

7. tried to regain lost ground soon afterward with his own speech re the ME Peace Process, in which Bibi gruding admitted at last to the theoretical possibility of a Pally state, on terms dictated by Israel;

8. got to see a spineless US gov't drop the espionage trial of accused AIPAC spies Rosen and Weissman;

9. finally, after two years of rejection, managed to get a US visa allowing his Security Aide Dr. Arad to enter the US, even though Arad had been previously denied a visa in the past on the grounds that his presence in the US was detrimental to this country's welfare, and incidently, Dr. Arad was a tangential figure of interest in the above mentioned Rosen/Weissman case;

10. had to grit his teeth and endure French Prez Skorzy's public advice that Bibi jettison his Foreign Minister and one-time barroom bouncer Agidor Lieberman;

11. had his demand that the Pallys explicitly accept the existence of Israel "as a Jewish state" widely ridiculed and fall flat on it's grotesque face.

Now, call me critical, but this doesn't seem as if Bibi is so far cutting a Churchillian swathe through the political history of our time. But of course, Bibi's goals are all extremelty short-term and  utterly expedient :

1. no Pally state/homeland under any condition;
2. no return of the Golan Heights to Syria under any condition;
3. no improved US-Iranina relations;
4. no improved US-Syrian relations;
5. keeping the US involved, to it's detriment, in every violent facet imaginable of the Israeli-Pally conflict;
6. beating the shit out of the terror threat du jour for everything it's worth;
7. no improvement of relations beteen the US and any Arab/Moslem state;
8. no questions raised about Israel's nuclear stockpile, rumored to be appx 200 devices, least of all it's tainted and quite shady origins.

Yeah, you see, Bibi is in the position which Henry Kissinger once used to describe guerrilla fighters in Viet-Nam : as long as Bibi doesn't conceed anything, as long as Bibi is not seen as losing, either by others or by his own domestic political constituency, he wins.  His only goal - the only goal of any Israeli PM for the forseeable future - is to turn over the office to the next PM with no loss of Israeli control over any part of territory it now holds, and no diminution of the support Israel enjoys from the clueless superpower.

Bibi is like a team which loses in every possible category of competition - except the final score.


-- Modified on 7/7/2009 9:01:30 PM