Great political confusion is taking place in Israel, the confusion is manifested by actions and statements made by a government that can only be described as a government in disarray. The cold relationship and the lack of chemistry between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu are seen to be a tacit disapproval of the current American administration about the way Israel is behaving with regard to the peace process and the building of illegal settlements.
This state of affair has caused and is causing Israel to commit many mishaps and miscalculations in its foreign policy. Israel is under extreme challenges to its existence. First, the country is faced with unabated struggle on the part of the Palestinians to gain a state of their own; second, due to the number of Israelis exiting the country, and the rate of childbirth of Arabs, demographically, Arabs will outnumber Jews in the state of Israel in 15 to 20 years time; populations and armed groups of the Middle East are increasingly seeing Israel as an outside entity that do not belong in the region; but the biggest threat of all is an Iranian nuclear bomb.
Compounded by an unsympathetic world opinion, Israel feels the walls are closing in.
These existential threats are pushing Israel to act erratically towards the outside world. The insult directed at the Turkish Foreign Minister, a country that was recently viewed as a moderate Muslim country and ally of Israel. The usage of European Passport to carry out an assassination operation in the U.A.E are two recent blunders. The assassination was successful. But the almost amateurish way the killing was carried out drew ire from European governments.
Can the present Israeli administration see that its current policies are alienating friends and foes alike? It probably can, but absence of an alternative and a policy that will guarantee for Israel a secure future is a bigger quandary facing it. Will Israel acknowledge that it has made some political mistakes, and attempt to right the wrong to gain credibility and legitimacy among the most important nations.( i.e. the entire Muslim World)? Only time will tell.
