Now? This article that Trumponator posted is old news from Oct 19. Scroll back up and look at the date that Trumpinator used.
You can read into it what you want, but there is only one 2 week old source to the story, that you can't actually read. Evidently, the rest of the world hasn't heard about it?
I'm sure the Australian company Woodside had a good reason to bail out.
The world will soon be flooded with nat gas from Iran, the US starts exporting nat gas next year. The Egyptian nat gas field will be developed quickly. Israel has been sitting on this for 5 years, complaining about price.
i agree that Jerusalem (Israeli government) has some serious problems. It may be ‘overly-democratic’ as it debates and debates and debates and discusses and argues... about a number of things it should simply decide. Including, alas, national and security/defense issues of importance.
On the other hand, USA government has degenetated into a dictatorship, effectively anyway as Congress and the Supreme Court continue to enable, rather than stop, the seizure of despotic power by O. Checks and balances have been replaced by checks ($$ bribes and hush money) and balances (for weighing the gold and silver paid to purchase the corrupt Congresscritters).
So yes, we still have checks and balances, just redefined is all Redefined as Orwell warned us about...
anyway, yes, Israel’s government is often far less decisive than it needs to be for even the simple defense of its citizens