Why is anyone surprised that Israeli Prime Minister-in-waiting Benjamin Netanyahu has been courting right-wing extremists in his bid to cobble together a coalition government? His track record in this respect is both long and infamous.
In January 1998, for example, the Guardian carried the headline, “Netanyahu meets US far right” and pointed out that he “met leaders of the Christian Coalition, including its founder Pat Robertson” in advance of an interview with the right-winger on his Christian Broadcasting Channel. According to the Guardian, the “prominence of Mr Robertson” on Netanyahu’s schedule was “especially remarkable”, not least because the Christian extremist was a “leading exponent of the theory that American life is in the grip of a Jewish-Masonic-Satanic conspiracy”.
We all know that Netanyahu is close to Donald Trump, and that he ignores or overlooks the former US…
