I’m not a big fan of Netanyahu but I do respect his political skills. He deliberately allowed BG to go up on har habayis early last month just as the government was being formed to let him score some political points and deflate the issue. Now that Netanyahu is trying to establish ties with the Saudis, ANY such provocation would be stopped in its tracks and BG would be squashed like a bug. The Saudis have been relatively quiet about Israel’s forceful responses to Palestinian terrorists BUT if Israeli politicians provoked a violent confrontation on Har Habayis, the Saudis would immediately cut off any further discussions with Netanyahu on commercial “normalization” under some variation of the Abraham Accords.
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