Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu today has called for early general elections at his Likud Party’s convention — the elections will likely be held in September. 
The general election, if held in September, would be about a year earlier than necessary, with an election otherwise due by October 13.
Since the landmark 1996 election when Benjamin Netanyahu first became a world figure by defeating Shimon Peres to become Israeli prime minister, I’ve been fascinated by his ability to remain in the center of Israeli politics for nearly two decades — in his bellicosity and in his tenacity, he reminds me of Israel’s version of Richard Nixon.
Not to make light of the deadly serious three-way dance going on among the United States, Israel and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program (and the potential US and Israeli military response to it), which could have wide-ranging impacts on the politics of all three countries and the world beyond, I found this video fabulously hilarious, which mashes up Netanyahu’s speech yesterday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee with Daffy Duck.
File it alongside the Putin/Mr. Burns parody from last week.
BBC News explores the duck analogy in greater detail here.