It is never a good sign when a country’s leader, on the eve of an election, appears at a military base and speaks of signs that unspecified enemies are plotting an attack. It is alarming, and equally suspicious, when the person doing so is a prime minister desperate to win re-election, retain political power, and escape the day of reckoning in court over corruption charges. It was, therefore, difficult not to view with skepticism Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s video, filmed at an Israeli Ai
