How the Saudis help Netanyahu in his pre-election campaign

“Something very, very big is happening here,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told 41 congressional Democrats who visited Israel on Aug. 7, his laser pointer sweeping across a map from Azerbaijan to Brazil, from Africa to Australia. “There is an exceptional revolution taking place in Israel's position in the world,” Netanyahu declared, complaining that the media were hardly reporting on these “revolutionary times.”

King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, cautioned against such boasting: “May a stranger praise you and not your mouth” (Proverbs 27:2). But he probably was not referring to Netanyahu’s “besties” Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Chad’s President Idriss Deby and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.