Sukumar Muralidharan writes:

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has made a habit of using the public lectern to berate everybody who may question his monopoly over morality and wisdom. The foreign minister of Ireland was at the receiving end of his didactic zeal most recently, for the sin of his government’s assistance to the besieged people of Gaza. On an earlier occasion, he brusquely refused a meeting with the visiting German foreign minister, for his insistence on meeting with “Breaking the Silence,” a group of Israeli military personnel who have been cataloguing the unending crimes of the occupation of Palestine.