And as I see it, the great majority of the Jews – and American Jews in particular – look upon you at this moment with a mixture of incredulity, confusion, anger, and dismay.

You have ceased to be the leader that you once were – and yes, you once were a leader of stature, whether I agreed with you or not. But you are now on the road to becoming a delusional maniac.

Let me be specific.

Well into your fourth term, you have emerged as someone who cannot decide on anything, large or small. With the single exception of the economy, where you have performed well, you have danced around and equivocated on every matter of consequence to the State of Israel and to the Jewish people. Every single one. Only now is this pattern fully apparent because you frequently pretend to decide only to backtrack down the road.

Point: In 2009, in a speech at Bar-Ilan University, you committed yourself to a two-state solution. In the 9 years since, you have reiterated that commitment when convenient, especially to European and American audiences.

At the same time, you have increased the number of settlers beyond the separation fence from 65,000 to 110,000, arguably making a two-state solution, in practical terms, impossible. You have also frequently boasted to the Yesha Council of your commitment to settlement building. Bibi, where do you stand on settlements and a two-state solution?

Point: Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, and since then the already difficult situation of its two million residents has continued to deteriorate. They live today in the most desperate circumstances imaginable. Blame for their plight rests squarely on the shoulders of Hamas and Abbas. But inevitably, since Israel is the powerful next-door-neighbor, the problem has become hers as well.

Israel Katz, Israel’s transportation minister, has called on Israel to promote the building of a seaport for Gaza. It is a promising idea that has won the support of a half-dozen government ministers.  But you have responded in your usual manner: You have dithered and dallied, neither accepting Katz’s idea nor proposing one of your own. And Hamas, still rejectionist and reprehensible, has exploited its own criminal negligence by inciting violence on the Gaza-Israel border that Israel’s military must quell.

Israel’s army deserves our thanks and our respect. While the loss of life is tragic, it has responded honorably and as best it can. But the questions remain. How is a humanitarian crisis to be avoided? How are services to be provided? Bibi, where do you stand on finding a way to ease the suffering in Gaza?

Point: The problem of Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in southern Tel Aviv has festered for a decade. By any reasonable standard, it is a relatively minor problem, involving fewer than 40,000 people. A resolute leader would have long ago found a way to resolve their legal status and disperse them to other areas throughout Israel that are willing and able to absorb them.

But not you. Paralyzed, oblivious, and self-absorbed, you did nothing until the situation in Tel Aviv turned desperate and explosive. And then you cooked up a barely acceptable plan with the United Nations that involved keeping half of the asylum seekers and deporting the other half.

But a few hours later, you reversed yourself, heeding a variety of spurious and absurd claims by members of your coalition. For example, right-wingers who see no demographic threat to Israel in ruling over the 3 million Palestinians residing in the West Bank, had the chutzpah to argue that 40,000 African refugees were an unacceptable demographic danger to Israel.

The result of these shenanigans: A firestorm of outrage in Israel and the Jewish world, sharp criticism from stalwart supporters of Israel such as Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman, much unwanted international attention, and no clear resolution of the refugee issue. Bibi, how exactly do you intend to resolve the status of the asylum seekers?

And there is more, of course – much more. Relations with world Jewry are still in crisis. The cancelling of the Kotel agreement remains an open wound.  Authority over conversions recognized by Israel remains solely in ultra-Orthodox hands. And every action that you take or consider is poisoned by the reek of corruption that engulfs you.

On the corruption issue, it should be said, American Jews do not rush to judgment. The cases against you discussed in the press are complicated.  And they know that many other Israeli leaders have been investigated and that the Israeli justice system is very different from their own.

At the same time, Jews who revered Ben-Gurion, Begin, and Rabin are revolted by the hedonistic excesses of a Prime Minister who admits to accepting cigars and champagne worth a quarter of a million dollars from rich friends, even assuming there was no quid pro quo.

My conclusion? Israel needs a Prime Minister who combines humanity and realism, who does not suffer from chronic uncertainty and lack of principle, who inspires confidence in the Jewish people everywhere, and who looks upon his or her office as a yoke to be borne with dignity.

Regretfully, Mr. Prime Minister, we have seen from your years in office that you do not possess these characteristics. I hope and pray that the workings of Israel’s democracy will turn to someone who does. And soon.