September 18, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -   True, Donald Trump promised and failed to deliver a wall paid for by the Mexicans he so viciously incited against. And true, he has forced military families into distress, their children denied proper schools and other necessities, just to pay for part of the wall he’s failed to deliver.

But, from the first and all along, the flailing president had one strong, imposing wall to fall back on. And now it’s gone. It was called Benjamin Netanyahu.

The purpose of the Trump Wall was never to protect Americans. Its sole purpose was to protect Trump. And now it’s gone.

While no one can know how the next Israeli government will shape up, one look at the prime minister’s face, and one look at the public absence of his activist wife, makes clear that the Benjamin Netanyahu who has dominated Israeli politics for most of the last quarter century, and who came to play a key role in American political life as well, will never be the same.

The strength of the Trump Wall — more accurately, the Bibi Wall — was from the beginning the indomitability of Netanyahu, the prime minister’s adoration on the part of the American evangelical base and of the blind-to-sin pastors who cheerlead them.

Much more than Trump built the Bibi Wall, the Bibi Wall built Trump. Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and recognizing — in a qualified way — the Holy City as Israel’s capital, had relatively little impact on the Israeli electorate. But the moves cemented Sheldon and Miriam Adelson’s critical support of Trump, and have become platinum selling points on Trump’s Bible Belt and gun closet rally campaign trail.

The fact is, the Bibi Wall began to erode and crumble well before Netanyahu faced the cold clock of Election Night.

In a seamless downward slide, Netanyahu’s campaign appearances went from gigantic, North-Korea-worthy outdoor advertisements showing Trump and Bibi as best buddies, ruling the world together, to a shocking tack which, in the end, cast the White House's Israeli-Palestinian "Peace Plan of the Century” as an imminent danger to Israel. By the end, the talking points of the prime minister had him openly asking Israeli voters “Who do you want negotiating with you against Trump — me, or a government of [Kahol Lavan leaders Yair] Lapid and [Benny] Gantz with the Arabs?”

In a bizarre game of chicken and egg, Trump himself hastened the fall of the Bibi Wall.