Quote Of The Week

"[M]aybe from our perspective, the newly honest Netanyahu government isn’t such a bad thing ***. American governments can give up the endlessly frustrating task of trying to negotiate a Palestinian-Israeli settlement, because the Israeli leader is now on record saying he wants the occupation to be permanent. And with Netanyahu’s journey from the far right to the far-far-right, we can be less concerned with his opinion about Iran’s nuclear program or anything else, and treat him like what he is: an ideologically radical factional leader, albeit one capable of winning one-quarter of the seats in his country’s parliament."

- Paul Waldman.