One rumor has it that what is paralyzing Benjamin Netanyahu is his latent fear of Avigdor Lieberman. Some people attribute this fear to these politicians' past together. Some attribute it to the interaction between the foreign minister's threatening personality and the prime minister's threatened personality. The result is one and the same - Netanyahu is gradually turning himself into Lieberman's poodle. He is behaving like someone who has been abducted by Yisrael Beiteinu and given himself over completely to his captors. A strange version of the Stockholm Syndrome is leading Bibi to serve Lieberman even as Lieberman ties his hands, abuses him and forces on him a humiliating political death.
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