it took Gantz a long long time to come down to the level of Bibi.  It wasn’t just like sitting down to a game of checkers that turned out to be chess.  because it wasn’t just chess, it was kick-chess – with kicks under the table going to all kinds of sensitive places.  And you’ve been trained not to show pain.

But now that Gantz has turned over the table and shouted out that he’s not playing any more he’s being blamed for breaking up the government.  He doesn’t even have to keep good records for the times he was kicked, because most of the time it was very visible.  Bibi is never subtle but never apologetic.  So what Gantz has to do is start smiling together with all the other parties – even Labor, and his recent enemy Lapid, and some of the Arab parties – especially Ahmed Tibi.  He can’t even pretend to be a leader after he’s been the gentleman with a ruffian.  

How many of us personally have been in that same situation.  Someone bullies us and we try to smooth our way out of it.  There was once a survey of rape in New York City and it concluded that Jewish women get raped far more than minority women because they get into situations they think they can talk their way out of, when other women just don’t go there.