Hubris in action: Netanyahu and the warnings of 7th October

Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.  With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied his way to power, and, for the most part, stayed the course for the best part of a generation. He bloomed in arid soil when sceptics thought him dead.  He offers lessons of Machiavellian proportions almost unsurpassed.  What, then, of being found out for falling short ahead of the 27th October elections?  Errors in the making, the sundering blunder to soil the image of strength?  History offers the guidance of tragic and foolish mistakes.  The British failure to anticipate their routing in Singapore by the […]