MIDDLE EAST:
TEL AVIV: Current and likely outgoing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stepped up his efforts to assert his authority despite the fact he remains in office in only a caretaker capacity while negotiations take place among opposition parties to assemble a new government following last month’s election.
Since the election questions have been raised about the capacity of Mr Netanyahu to manage his nation’s security and in particular if he could still launch military offensives, even potentially against Iran. (below)
“Yes, I am caretaker PM at the moment,” Mr Netanyahu told reporters at a news conference.
“And I am taking care of the biggest problem facing our nation – the continuing existence of the Palestinian people, err….. I mean the continuing existence of Hamas terrorists in places like Gaza.
“Even as caretaker PM I continue to address this problem as I have done over the past three years by ordering the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to seek out and kill Hamas terrorists just like this one,” he said while holding up a posted of a person he identified as a Hamas operative targeted and eliminated in Gaza by an IDF missile during the current ceasefire. (main picture)
“I am pleased and proud to say that in the past three years I have been responsible for killing more than 20,000 of these young and vicious terrorists as part of a total terrorist death toll in Gaza of almost 75,000.
“Just the other day I killed more such terrorists at a Hamas hideout, and I remind you that the term ‘Hamas hideout’ in Arabic translates to ‘hospital’. (below)
“So let it be known, especially in Iran, that I am still very much capable of launching an attack to stay in office… err, ….I mean to stabilise the Middle East and indeed the world economy as I have done so magnificently over the past three years,” Mr Netanyahu said.
Very senior reporters among the media pack quizzed Mr Netanyahu on the identity of the baby used in his prop.
“Isn’t that just a digitally altered baby photo of the late head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat?” asked one veteran political journalist.
An angry Prime Minister turned on the reporter in question and yelled, “That’s just antisemitic!”, before storming from the room.
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