any writer who can speak lovingly about the clintoon rabin relationship cannot be taken seriously. And what do you base your assessment that Bibi has capitulated on? To the contrary, Bibi has, for the most part, stood strong against the arabist state dept and the fleeting demands of the Ozero admin.
Actually he hasn't.
He went along with the first freeze. He capitulated on a Palestinian State. In fact I dare you to show any instance where he held firm.
Moshe Ya'alon, Begin, other Likud members, are holding firm. Not Netanyahu.
He talks a nice game, he did the first time too. At the end his bending to Clinton got his own allies to reject him. That brought the tragedy of having Barak become PM. He is now bending to Obama/Clinton and the result could be tragedy.
What will save Israel- and him- maybe is if he can't persuade the whores at Shas to sign on to this trap.
To be fair to Netanyahu, very few Israeli PM's have been able to withstand an unfriendly American President. On the other hand that is what people who had high hopes for Netanyahu prayed for and what Israel needs in a leader: today more then ever when the American President is so hostile.