Now the Israeli cabinet has voted 10-1 for a ceasefire deal that no-one can even really pretend to believe isn’t crap or has any rationale other than America demanded it, perhaps this is the time that esoteric Bibiism will become exoteric. He can address the nation and come clean: Israel is not a sovereign country; economic, technological and geographic facts no-one can change preclude it being a sovereign country; any real attempt to make it a sovereign country would precipitate a death spiral within months. We’ve all been walking around with birds in our heads, but maybe, if we just admit it, we can cut our losses, take the wins, and work on being the best American vassal state we can be.

But presumably he will say something about the Left, and the Left will say something about Charedim, and we just go on gaslighting ourselves about the civilizational decline that greets you everywhere you look. Much like the imperial center, only everyone is bald and wears undersized puffer coats.