Israel's president 'scolds' Netanyahu

He probably wouldn't call it "scolding" the prime minister, but what else was it?   Israel's president Reuven Rivlin said this in an obvious reference to Netanyahu's warning to his far right base:  "the Arabs are flocking to the polls in droves."

"One who is afraid of votes in a ballot box will eventually see stones thown in the streets."

And later, in describing the "difficult election period," Rivlin said:

". . .  [T]hings were said which ought not to be said -- not in a Jewish state and not in a democratic state."

Netanyahu has been back-tracking and apologizing for his remarks, but no one is fooled into believing that he will ever cooperate with working to achieve a two-state settlement, with autonomy and full rights to self-governance to the Palestinians.

Ralph