Netanyahu’s reckoning a sour ending for a transformative prime minister

Netanyahu was brought down not because of policy failures but because of personal ones — including a refusal to grasp that democratic leaders wear out their welcomes. He may have been the most adept Western leader of our time, but he treated people like garbage — friends as well as foes — and they finally were able to set aside their differences and get rid of him because he was so awful to everybody. It reminds me of a great line in Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” in which one old vaudevillian says of another, “As an actor, no one could touch him. As a human being, no one wanted to touch him.” That is grist for biography. History will consider him a transformational figure. And he may not be done with history yet. The government that replaced him is the Archie’s jalopy of political vehicles. It may not run long. And he’ll be right there to swoop in.
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