If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to win the elections, Sept. 10. could turn out to be forever seared into the memories of Israelis as a traumatic day.

According to the latest polls, a little less than half of Israelis will be giving their votes on Sept. 17 to one of the so-called “right-wing bloc” parties. For the rest of Israel’s eligible voters, members of the “anyone but Netanyahu” bloc, Sept. 10 could mark the day that Netanyahu and his strategy sank to the depths of the earth.

But what exactly happened on Sept. 10? At 6 p.m., Netanyahu convened the ministers and Knesset members of his Likud party to cheer his “dramatic” declaration that he would impose Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern part of the Dead Sea. That is, of course, if voters allow him to form a coalition government that will grant him immunity from prosecution on charges of corruption and thwart his “annexation” to Maasiyahu Prison.

Shortly after this fraudulent election propaganda, delivered on live television under the guise of an important announcement to the nation, the headlines blared an announcement of truly significant national importance, reporting that US President Donald Trump had fired national security adviser John Bolton. Along with hearing that Netanyahu’s ideological doppelganger (the hawkish Bolton) had been kicked out of the White House, Israeli voters were informed that the American president was willing to meet unconditionally with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani. The news was delivered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had become in the blink of a tweet the key figure in the US foreign policy arena. Netanyahu’s nightmarish evening was capped with dramatic footage showing “Mr. Security” being whisked off an election rally stage in the southern city of Ashdod by his bodyguards to the strident tones of a siren warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza.