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It’s no wonder Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not even try to hide his disappointment at Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s presidential elections.
The replacement of “the modern-day Hitler,” as he had described [outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad on one of his visits to the United States (2008), with a leader considered moderate and pragmatic, has shuffled his deck of “advocacy” cards and left him without a joker. The prime minister will be hard pressed from now on to frighten the Israeli public with “a second Holocaust” and thus deflect its attention from the Palestinian problem.
