HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This has remained my position today, especially when reading the headlines on the BBC News site. Whenever I see something along the lines of "Netanyahu in surprise election win" I'm almost surprised not to see "Bugger!" in brackets after it. Poor old Jeremy Bowen and his fellow-correspondents must be feeling sick as pigs - they've all been so pant-wettingly excited at the prospect of getting rid of a politician they so evidently hate.
Of course, the BBC isn't alone. Here's US commentator Pamela Geller on the reaction over at the New York Times, a newspaper now fittingly run by fomer BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson (here):
The NY Times now even admits that Netanyahu “soundly beat” his rivals. It’s practically a funeral over on Eighth Avenue. Their pain is turning to anger and they are attacking Netanyahu, predicting his failure even as he wins such a victory. They are practically spitting blood. Haters gonna hate.
NYT: To bridge the gap, Mr. Netanyahu embarked on a last-minute scorched-earth campaign, promising that no Palestinian state would be established as long as he remained in office and insulting Arab citizens.As that quote from the paper demonstrates, all the lefties praying for Bibi's defenestration have done what they always do when they suffer a reverse - gone into bitter, smeary, ferocious attack mode. Here's a typical piece of unbiased analysis from the BBC's Mark Lowen in Jerusalem:
His victory defied the odds, but now Benjamin Netanyahu is confident he can build a coalition.
It will be staunchly nationalist, inevitably including far right and ultra-Orthodox parties but may also involve centrists who'll try to tame his hardline stance on the Palestinian issue.
Mr Netanyahu recently vowed to step up building in settlements and effectively ruled out a Palestinian state.
An official from the Palestine Liberation Organisation said Israel had chosen "the path of racism and occupation".
There will be concern in the West that peace talks are unlikely to be reignited unless the new coalition tempers its views.
Oh dear - not a happy bunny! Note all the leftie buzzwords and phrases: staunchly nationalist (nationals are always "staunch", apparently); far-right (i.e. usually anti-Big State, but it's a description that can mean anything when wielded by a leftist); ultra-Orthodox (religious maniacs - not a phrase ever applied to Muslims, obviously); hardline stance (i.e. irrational war-monger); the word racist is smuggled in via a quote from the PLO, which isn't in the least anti-Semitic, but just happens to want to kill all the Jews; and it almost goes without saying that right-wingers need to be tamed and that their viewes need to be tempered - hey, we all know they're batshit crazy, right?
Classic stuff. The reason the Left loses its temper so badly when things don't go their way is that they're so used to being allowed to reconfigure awkward facts to suit their worldview (otherwise known as "lying") that they get jolly upset when those facts stubbornly resist reinterpretation. When discussing the economy, or the NHS, or education, or immigration etc. lefties habitually rerarrange actuality into a more pleasing pattern by making up facts, or by blatantly misrepresenting them. Just listen to any member of Labour's front-bench team (if you can stomach the thought) making statements about any of the things they screwed up so badly while in office (that would be everything) to see what I'm getting at - Mid-Staffs never happened; the economy was fine when they left office - or, if it wasn't, it was nothing to do with them; they didn't "dumb down" education - all those fabulous exam results reflected genuine achievement; okay, they let immigration get ever-so-slightly out of hand, but they're going to be scarily tough next time - but, unlike those horrid Tories or racist UKIP, they're going to be fair, because they're really, really nice - or something.
When it comes to election results, the left-wing trick is to claim that the other side didn't do as well as it was expected to do, and that, therefore, in a very real sense, voters have resoundingly rejected their opponents' policies, and, consequently, the election can be seen as a ringing endorsement of their own platform. But when the Right win an election they were expected to lose - or win it by a larger margin than had been predicted - the fall-back position is to claim that THE END IS NIGH!
I have no idea whether Netanyahu's election victory has enhanced or harmed the prospect of a solution to the Arab-Israeli problem. But as I don't for one moment believe that the PLO or Hamas or Iran actually want a solution that doesn't involve the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of Jewry in the region, I'd go with the guy who mistrusts Arab intentions (which is what all the evidence would seem to suggest) rather than one who actually believes a bunch of homicidal rocket-lobbers have any interest in reaching an equitable, workable, peaceful settlement of their differences with their neighbours.
A lot of people I respect loathe Bibi with a vengeance. But while Barack Obama, the BBC, the New York Times, The Guardian and their ilk continue to propagandise against him - at the same time lending uncritical support to the Palestinian cause by wilfully turning a blind eye to the sheer wickedness being perpetrated in its name - I'm all for the man.
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