When former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert keeps battling in court, when former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman awaits his fateful verdict, when former Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi is under police investigation in the Harpaz case, with Yair Lapid plummeting in the polls and Yachimovich unable to break through her glass ceiling, there is nobody on the horizon that can jeopardize Benjamin Netanyahu as the only possible prime minister of the state of Israel. He and nobody else.

He has been eulogized many a time before. After the social protest in the summer of 2011 we were sure he was done for. After the last elections, which he actually lost (but still was able to cobble together a government thanks to political shiftiness), we were sure it was all over. But the way things look now, and barring unexpected developments (such as take place in Israel on an almost daily basis), it seems that Netanyahu will outlive President Barack Obama in office.

Right under our radar, Bibi has become the only stable factor in the Middle East. But more than anything else, it attests to our situation and that of the region.

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