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Michael K. Smith
Legalienation News Bureau

Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured
the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished
career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an
apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note at his side
explained that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been
his patient for the last nine years, had “sucked the life right out of
me.”

“I can’t take it anymore,” wrote Yatom. “Robbery is redemption,
apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-
defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation
is liberation, there’s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised
rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met
Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.”

Psychiatrists are familiar with the human tendency to massage the
truth to avoid confronting emotionally troubling material, but Yatom
was apparently stunned at what he called the “waterfall of lies”
gushing from his most illustrious patient. His personal diary details
the steady disintegration of his once invincible personality under the
barrage of self-serving rationalizations put forth by Netanyahu.

“I’m completely shocked,” said neighbor Yossi Bechor, whose family
regularly vacationed with Yatom’s family. “Moshe was the epitome of
the fully-integrated personality and had cured dozens of
schizophrenics before beginning work on Bibi. There was no outward
indication that his case was any different from the others.”

But it was. Yatom grew increasingly depressed at his complete lack of
progress in getting the Prime Minister to acknowledge reality, and he
eventually suffered a series of strokes when attempting to grasp
Netanyahu’s thinking, which he characterized in one diary entry as “a
black hole of self-contradiction.”

The first of Yatom’s strokes occurred when Netanyahu offered his
opinion that the 911 attacks on Washington and New York “were good.”
The second followed a session in which Netanyahu insisted that Iran
and Nazi Germany were identical. And the third occurred after the
Prime Minister declared Iran’s nuclear energy program was a “flying
gas chamber,” and that all Jews everywhere “lived permanently in
Auschwitz.” Yatom’s efforts to calm Netanyahu’s hysteria were
extremely taxing emotionally and routinely ended in failure. “The
alibi is always the same with him,” complained another diary entry.
“The Jews are on the verge of annihilation at the hands of the racist
goyim and the only way to save the day is to carry out one final
massacre.”

Yatom was apparently working on converting his diary into a book about
the Netanyahu case. Several chapters of an unfinished manuscript,
entitled “Psychotic On Steroids,” were found in his study. The excerpt
below offers a rare glimpse at the inner workings of a Prime
Minister’s mind, at the same time as it reveals the daunting challenge
Yatom faced in seeking to guide it to rationality:

Monday, March 8

“Bibi came by at three for his afternoon session. At four he refused
to leave and claimed my house was actually his. Then he locked me in
the basement overnight while he lavishly entertained his friends
upstairs. When I tried to escape, he called me a terrorist and put me
in shackles. I begged for mercy, but he said he could hardly grant it
to someone who didn’t even exist.”

-----Michael K. Smith is the author of "Portraits of Empire" and "The
Madness of King George," from Common Courage Press. He can be reached
at proheresy@yahoo.com