“The more time passes, the more I am convinced that there is nothing to worry about. Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] simply lacks the courage to make any major diplomatic move.” I was told this yesterday, Oct. 15, by a Knesset member from the Likud — one of the leaders of the party's hard-core ideological right wing — when I raised the possibility that he and his colleagues were falling asleep on their watch, and that the outline for an agreement with the Palestinians could be coming together right under their noses.
Our conversation took place in the Knesset, shortly before Netanyahu delivered his speech at the start of the Knesset's winter session. His speech referred only in a marginal, general and noncommittal way to the diplomatic negotiations. The Knesset member I spoke with and his colleagues in the Likud faction really did have nothing to complain or worry about.
