Bowling Them Over

According to Reuters, one Israeli ambassador and two other Israeli diplomats “face possible dismissal for publishing posts on Twitter critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”  The tweets come in the midst of Netanyahu’s campaign for a fourth term in office, which includes a stop in Washington, DC on March 3.

Reuters identified the three as Yigal Caspi, envoy to Switzerland, who “retweeted remarks by journalists accusing Netanyahu of endangering already shaky relations with Washington,” Assaf Moran, a political officer at the embassy in India, and Yaron Gamburg, staffer at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

“Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi described the tweets as ‘outrageous,’” adding that “‘These people must identify with all of the state’s positions, regardless of politics, and by the state I mean Bibi.’”

The Reuters article was written by Dan Williams with editing by Luke Baker and Mark Trevelyan, and additions by me.  The original may be found here: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/05/israel-election-diplomats-idINL6N0VF2YR20150205.

I mean Bibi, because létat, c’est lui.  Just ask him.

In related news, two University of Southern California at Rancho Cucamonga social scientists, James Willoughby and Wilfred Patterne, have come up with a standardized test to measure E.Q. (egoism quotient).  The test will measure egoism according to the Willoughby-Patterne scale, whose scores will correlate roughly with the I.Q. measurements.  Thus, 100 will be average, and in this case, healthy; 130 inflated; and anything over150 will be, if left unchecked, insufferable.

Beta testing will soon begin in California, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.  In the meantime, Willoughby and Patterne have recommended to the Arthur Mack Foundation (AMF)* for Ego Genius awards, former president Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, and Netanyahu.

“We’re not talking about I.Q.,” Patterne told Go Around Back.  “We’re not talking about ח.Q. (Chutzpah Quotient),” Willoughby added: “This is just about good old fashioned Louis XIV narcissism.”

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*Applications for Ego Grants available at pinsetters.com.