Israel: no Munich ahead

The die is cast -- Netanyahu has ended efforts to build a coalition with the Labor party, and will instead form a government with the hard-line nationalist party Israel Beiteinu, whose leader Avigdor Lieberman will become foreign minister.

The Israeli people can depend on this government to stand firm against any effort to impose such insanities as a Palestinian state or appeasement of the gangster theocracy in Tehran. This is now especially critical since Obama's intentions toward, and degree of understanding of, the Middle East are still unclear (and I don't find this at all encouraging).