So now Prime Minister Netanyahu insists “I didn’t mean it” when he said he was abandoning the two-state solution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday tried to backtrack from his pre-election declaration that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch…

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Mr. Netanyahu also said he had not been trying to suppress the votes of Arab citizens with an Election Day video warning that they were being bused to polling stations in “droves,” remarks that had also caused outrage at the White House and around the world.

Apparently no one in the White House believes that. I’d argue that no one in his right mind other than slavish supporters of the man should believe it. He took a policy that’s been in place for years, one that has been the stated policy of both Israel and its biggest (and almost only) ally, a policy that was unanimously agreed to by the US House of Representatives as recently as last year, and casually dumped it just to get re-elected. That dumping had the desired result, so now Bibi is trying to crawl back from his own words. Someone should remind him about videotape and cellphone cameras.

He’s a really nasty piece of work. He’d fit right in with Mitch McConnell in the Republican caucus of the US Senate.