Michael Oren doing an end around Lieberman on behalf of Bibi?
A right wing attempt to discredit Bibi? There seems to be a serious challenge to Netanyahu brewing:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Politics-Trouble-on-the-home-front-316498
Can’t come soon enough for me.
“Netanyahu fears that if the court is run by a right-wing political activist like Weiser, hawks on the Likud central committee could take him to court whenever he takes actions that violates the committee’s decisions, such as the decision opposing a Palestinian state or a potential decision to reject the merger with Yisrael Beytenu that he covets.
The worst-case scenario for Netanyahu is that the central committee could take action to initiate a leadership race in which he could be overthrown. If he had his man at the helm of the court, those moves could be stopped.
Netanyahu thought he had the right man for the job: A retired judge with a Likud background named Nissim Yeshaya. But then Yeshaya got in trouble for saying that “some women enjoy rape,” and then another judge said no new candidates for chairman of the court could join the race – which could mean an easy victory for Weiser.
“I don’t intend to use the court to persuade people to accept my views,” Weiser said when informed of Netanyahu’s concern. “I just want to help the Likud, which is in a bad state. The court doesn’t normally deal with ideological disputes. But if he is afraid of running the party according to its constitution, then yes, he has what to worry about if I win.”
LOL.