Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.

Today, there are few such fears. “The feeling now is that Bibi’s bluffing,” this second official said. “He’s not Begin at Osirak,” the official added, referring to the successful 1981 Israeli Air Force raid ordered by the ex-prime minister on Iraq’s nuclear reactor. 
  
 The belief that Netanyahu’s threat to strike is now an empty one has given U.S. officials room to breathe in their ongoing negotiations with Iran. You might think that this new understanding of Netanyahu as a hyper-cautious leader would make the administration somewhat grateful. Sober-minded Middle East leaders are not so easy to come by these days, after all. But on a number of other issues, Netanyahu does not seem sufficiently sober-minded. 
  
 Another manifestation of his chicken-shittedness, in the view of Obama administration officials, is his near-pathological desire for career-preservation. Netanyahu’s government has in recent days gone out of its way to a) let the world know that it will quicken the pace of apartment-building in disputed areas of East Jerusalem; and b) let everyone know of its contempt for the Obama administration and its understanding of the Middle East. Settlement expansion, and the insertion of right-wing Jewish settlers into Arab areas of East Jerusalem, are clear signals by Netanyahu to his political base, in advance of possible elections next year, that he is still with them, despite his rhetorical commitment to a two-state solution. The public criticism of Obama policies is simultaneously heartfelt, and also designed to mobilize the base. 
  
 Just yesterday, Netanyahu criticized those who condemn Israeli expansion plans in East Jerusalem as “disconnected from reality.” This statement was clearly directed at the State Department, whose spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, had earlier said that, “if Israel wants to live in a peaceful society, they need to take steps that will reduce tensions. Moving forward with this sort of action would be incompatible with the pursuit of peace.” 
  
 It is the Netanyahu government that appears to be disconnected from reality. Jerusalem is on the verge of exploding into a third Palestinian uprising. It is true that Jews have a moral right to live anywhere they want in Jerusalem, their holiest city. It is also true that a mature government understands that not all rights have to be exercised simultaneously. Palestinians believe, not without reason, that the goal of planting Jewish residents in all-Arab neighborhoods is not integration, but domination—to make it as difficult as possible for a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem to ever emerge. 
  
 Unlike the U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, I don’t have any hope for the immediate creation of a Palestinian state (it could be dangerous, at this chaotic moment in Middle East history, when the Arab-state system is in partial collapse, to create an Arab state on the West Bank that could easily succumb to extremism), but I would also like to see Israel foster conditions on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem that would allow for the eventual birth of such a state. This is what the Obama administration wants (and also what Europe wants, and also, by the way, what many Israelis and American Jews want), and this issue sits at the core of the disagreement between Washington and Jerusalem. ||||| Hebrew daily Haaretz’s political cartoon on Thursday stirred controversy by depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane into one of the World Trade Center towers attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001. 
  
 The cartoon, by the paper’s Amos Biderman, shows the prime minister flying a plane labeled “Israel” into the building, which is flying an American flag. There is no caption explaining the significance of the caricature. 
  
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 The cartoon was published in the wake of comments made to The Atlantic by an unnamed American official who called Netanyahu “chickenshit” and cowardly, an interview that strained already tense relations between Washington and Jerusalem. Netanyahu on Wednesday rebuffed the criticism of his foreign policy, saying the unnamed official who issued it didn’t hold Jerusalem’s interests as a top priority. 
  
 Biderman explained in a phone interview with The Times of Israel that the cartoon implied that Netanyahu was leading to “a disaster in Israel-US relations on the scale of 9/11,” pointing to the prime minister’s “arrogance” and unchecked settlement construction in retaliation for Palestinian terrorism and diplomacy alike. 
  
 Israeli Foreign Ministry official Paul Hirschson remarked on Twitter that the cartoon was “gutter press.” 
  
 I don't make a habit of criticizing the media but @haaretz what's with the gutter press today? pic.twitter.com/0eBKQhzF9f — Paul Hirschson (@paulhirschson) October 30, 2014 
  
 Reached for comment, the US Embassy declined to respond to the cartoon. 
  
 Social media users took to Twitter and Facebook to comment on the comic, which some deemed “sick filth,” “provocative” and “loaded.” 
  
 A commenter on the Haaretz Hebrew website said, “It’s simply unbelievable that you don’t have any shame in comparing Netanyahu to the mass murderers of 9/11.” 
  
 “You’re allowed to incite against the sitting prime minister in a much worse way than there was before the assassination of [prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin,” a user who went by the name of Gilad wrote. 
  
 David Kenner, the Middle East editor for Foreign Policy magazine, simply stated “dislike” in his reaction on Twitter. 
  
 One representative Facebook user expressed outrage, asking how Haaretz could “PUBLISH THIS GARBAGE?” 
  
 https://www.facebook.com/avi.bieler/posts/10100220319020809 ||||| In the wake of a report that an Obama administration official used a barnyard epithet defying Hebrew translation to refer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a cartoon on the strained relations between Washington and Jerusalem that compared the Israeli leader to the hijackers who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. 
  
 As the image circulated online, readers across the political spectrum in Israel and the United States expressed outrage at the depiction of a smiling Mr. Netanyahu piloting a plane at the World Trade Center. Others, including the Jerusalem-based political analyst Brooklyn Middleton, were left scratching their heads. 
  
 The cartoonist who created the image, Amos Biderman, explained his intention to a reader on Twitter, writing: “The message is that Bibi is arrogantly and wantonly destroying Israel’s ties with the U.S. and leading us to a disaster on the scale of 9/11.” 
  
 “It was certainly not my intention to insult or upset anyone,” Mr. Biderman told Haaretz later. “I have drawn cartoons depicting every war that Israel has fought, including the Yom Kippur War — which I was involved in — where we suffered thousands of casualties,” he added. 
  
 “I have used some of Israel’s greatest tragedies as the background for my cartoon,” the illustrator said. “I never imagined that by using an image that evoked 9/11 I would cause such a storm.” 
  
 A conservative Israeli magazine responded by remixing the image to portray Haaretz, the voice of liberal Zionism, on a similar suicide mission against the prime minister’s office. 
  
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 One of Mr. Netanyahu’s American critics, M.J. Rosenberg, reminded his readers that when asked on Sept. 11, 2001, “what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu initially replied: “It’s very good.” Moments later, he retracted that statement, saying, “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.” 
  
 Whatever the cartoonist’s intention, the image was, as the British commentator Tom Wislon predicted, welcomed on social networks by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who continue to claim, in the complete absence of evidence, that the 2001 attacks were the work of Israeli intelligence operatives. 
  
 Mr. Netanyahu was dealing with a more important matter on Thursday, the violence in Jerusalem that set the city on edge, but before the cartoon was published, he did respond to the reported insult that prompted the image. The prime minister characterized the rhetorical attack on him by an unnamed American official as a response to his defense of Israel’s national security. ||||| Haaretz's political cartoonist, Amos Biderman, defended the editorial cartoon published on Thursday, following wide-spread criticism on social media. 
  
 The cartoon depicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu piloting an airplane with the word 'Israel' on the side, apparently flying toward a skyscraper, reminiscent of the 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, with an American flag on top. 
  
 After receiving several angry tweets, Biderman tweeted the following response (in Hebrew): 'The message is that Bibi is arrogantly and wantonly destroying Israel's ties with the U.S. and leading us to a disaster on the scale of 9/11.' 
  
 "It was certainly not my intention to insult or upset anyone," Biderman told Haaretz on Thursday. "I wasn't sufficiently aware of the great sensitivity that 9/11 holds for Americans." 
  
 According to Biderman, his cartoon contained criticism of Netanyahu. 
  
 "I was mocking Bibi," he said. "He's been acting like a bull in a china shop with the United States, which is Israel's most important strategic asset." 
  
 There has been criticism in many quarters of Netanyahu's handling of Israel's relationship with the United States. Critics have accused the prime minister of timing announcements about new construction projects in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to cause maximum embarrassment to the administration of President Barack Obama, with whom Netanyahu has a famously strained relationship. 
  
 Biderman also told Haaretz that he has never censored his cartoons, which have grappled with many controversial issues. 
  
 "I have drawn cartoons depicting every war that Israel has fought, including the Yom Kippur War – which I was involved in – where we suffered thousands of casualties. I have used some of Israel's greatest tragedies as the background for my cartoon. In one of my recent cartoons, which poked fun at the so-called Milky protest, I even referenced the Gestapo. I never imagined that by using an image that evoked 9/11 I would cause such a storm." |||||

Tell us how you really feel, Amos Biderman. The Israeli cartoonist is defending his cartoon circulated by Haaretz yesterday that shows Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu grinning as he pilots a plane straight toward a building that looks like one of the WTC towers—in essence comparing Bibi to the 9/11 hijackers, the New York Times reports. Although the image has incited plenty of outrage—Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Paul Hirschson tweeted that the cartoon was "gutter press"—Biderman told the Times of Israel in a phone call yesterday that the cartoon was simply meant to show how Netanyahu may cause "a disaster in Israel-US relations on the scale of 9/11"; he also told Haaretz yesterday that he "was mocking Bibi. … He's been acting like a bull in a china shop with the United States, which is Israel's most important strategic asset." The image was published just days after an unnamed senior Obama official was quoted in the Atlantic calling the prime minister "a chickens---t" in reference to the deteriorating US-Israeli relationship, which author Jeffrey Goldberg said was another "sign that relations … have moved toward a full-blown crisis." In addition to straightforward outrage, the controversial cartoon has also provoked other reactions: Conspiracy theorists are using the image as ammunition to bolster their idea that 9/11 was carried out by Israeli intelligence agents, while a conservative Israeli magazine posted its own image on Facebook that appears to show, as the NYT notes, "Haaretz, the voice of liberal Zionism, on a similar suicide mission against the prime minister's office." Either way, Biderman tells Haaretz that "it was certainly not my intention to insult or upset anyone. I wasn't sufficiently aware of the great sensitivity that 9/11 holds for Americans."