Gwynne Dyer: Benjamin Netanyahu faces extreme right wingers in
Israeli election    Now he’s widely considered to be a moderate.
But it’s not Netanyahu who has changed; Israel has. His
governing coalition will certainly win the largest number of
seats in the Knesset (parliament) again in the election on
Tuesday (January 22), but his new government will contain lots
of people who make him look very moderate indeed.  Consider, for
example, Moshe Feiglin, one of the ultra-right-wingers who
recently displaced the remaining moderates in internal elections
in Netanyahu’s own Likud Party.  “You can’t teach a monkey to
speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic,” Feiglin
told the New York Times recently. “You’re dealing with a culture
of thieves and robbers....The Arab destroys everything he
touches.”  Last October when Likud merged with its hard-right
coalition partner, Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home), it was
hailed as Netanyahu’s political masterstroke. Opinion polls
predicted that the new alliance would w