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Netanyahu also writes about his admiration for Margaret Thatcher and the crushing of the miners’ strike in the 1980s. He writes that the Israeli economy was then ‘mired in an antiquated semi-socialist bog’ and that Thatcher’s example inspired him to confront the Histadrut and the ‘unionised welfare state’. This moved him to privatise El Al, Zim, Bezeq, Bank Hapoalim and the Israel Discount Bank as Minister of Finance under Ariel Sharon. Bibi: My Story is a surprisingly sentimental and ideologically thoughtful autobiography from a politician known for his cold, hard realism. Unlike other political autobiographies, which mostly serve to obscure their subjects, this one provides us with the tools to understand this signature figure in modern Jewish history . . . a far better book than we had any reason to think it would be.” There are few new or surprising details in it. Netanyahu’s life has already been reported on in minute detail by the Israeli media and been the subject of half a dozen biographies already. And yet, in his telling it is still a fascinating story of the meteoric rise of a boy who spent his childhood split between Jerusalem and various American cities. His five years of military service in the most elite of Israeli combat units, followed by his years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then the death in Entebbe of his elder brother Yoni and a few years in which he seems to have gone astray, not quite finding himself in the business world either in the U.S. or Israel. Until he got the unexpected offer to become Israel’s deputy ambassador in Washington at the age of 32, making him an almost overnight media star and launching his breathtaking public career. Bibi Netanyahu: Well I would say, now I wouldn't put it in these impersonal terms. I would say in general, when you see antisemitism speak out against it. I took the measure of the man,” he claims. Once upon a time, George W Bush claimed to have looked into Putin’s soul. We know how that ended. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney and Joe Biden got the Russian leader right from the off.

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When he was with Rivlin,” Netanyahu writes, “Trump blurted out, ‘Bibi doesn’t want peace.’ For some unfathomable reason, this bombshell wasn’t leaked.” The president pointed to the other senior officials in the Oval Office and said, ‘Maybe they needed to see this. I didn’t. I’ve already decided to leave the deal.’” Naturally, Trump didn’t like being taken for a fool. I hoped the video would mitigate further bonding during his scheduled meeting with Abbas in Bethlehem on the last day of the trip.” On 30 April, Netanyahu went public about the raid. In Israel, he faced criticism for divulging details of a Mossad operation. In his book, he denies any breach of secrecy and says he was only discussing results.Wow! This was such a fascinating memoir. I was a fan of Benjamin Netanyahu before reading this, but now I admire him even more. He has done so much to protect Israel and Jews. Throughout, Netanyahu often quotes Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the great builders of the Zionist movement, but also someone whose current image has been moulded down the decades by the political dictates of both Left and Right. In many senses, the true Jabotinsky has been lost and has become little more than a caricature especially within the Likud. Thus Netanyahu gets it completely wrong in this book in suggesting that Jabotinsky predicted the Holocaust. Jabotinsky certainly stated that Jews would suffer if they did not leave for Mandatory Palestine, but this was a general comment — and unspecified. Jabotinsky like all Jews never predicted the horror and enormity of the Holocaust. In July 1937, he unveiled the rudiments of his ‘Ten Year Plan’ for Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to a meeting at the House of Commons. Would he have formulated a ten year plan — stretching to 1950 – if he had feared an immediate Holocaust? Within the Likud, some veteran figures such as Benny Begin and Dan Meridor, regard themselves as the genuine adherents of Jabotinsky’s teachings and disdain Netanyahu’s use of Jabotinsky. Israel’s politics are fractious and tribal. The far right grows as the left is decimated by the failed dream of the Oslo peace accords. Yet outside politics, things there are less fevered and acrid. Start-Up Nation has supplanted the kibbutz. Technology makes the desert bloom.

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Netanyahu recalls the well-attended Israel Solidarity rally in Trafalgar Square in May 2002 in the midst of suicide bombings by Palestinian Islamists and falsehoods about the Jenin ‘massacre’, taken up by sections of the British media. There was considerable internal debate within Jewish leadership as to whether it was wise to call upon Netanyahu’s services to present the case for Israel. Netanyahu pledged not to be controversial, but on the day could not resist the temptation to reach rhetorical heights — telescoping Chamberlain, appeasement, Churchill, the British in Palestine, Palestinian terrorists, antisemites, Arafat and the PLO into one long monologue. Richard Harries, the then Bishop of Oxford, commented later that Netanyahu ‘used the occasion for his own political purposes’. Netanyahu notes that he regularly studied the weekly Torah portion with his son. Yet in political life, he has ignored the universalism within Judaism and its concern for global justice. Peter Robinson: So the first question is, how did you do this? How did the country do it? This is not just changing economic policies, this is the changing the notion of what it means to be, an Israeli teenager, 40 years ago, go to a kibbutz. An Israeli kid today, "Where's the startup?" This is a fundamental change in the conception of what it means to be Israeli, is that correct? MyHoover delivers a personalized experience at Hoover.org. In a few easy steps, create an account and receive the most recent analysis from Hoover fellows tailored to your specific policy interests.

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Investigations into his conduct in public office are dismissed with alacrity. The CIA Affair (1996); the Gifts Affair (1999); the Bibi Tours Affair (2011); the Pistachio Affair (2013); the Laundry Affair (2013); the Submarine Affair (2016); Cases 1000, 2000 and 4000 (2019) are insidious allegations. Netanyahu warns that he strongly opposes ‘legal interference in Israeli politics’ — perhaps a portent of the shape of things to come in a government which includes Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Bibi Netanyahu: Well first of all, that's a decision of the voters, and the voters decided that. But the answer, the answer is a very simple one. Yes, I was there in office for quite a long time, altogether 15 years, which in a year will be the longest, the longest-serving leader of a democratic country in 53 years. So that's, so why did that happen? Well you know, people said, "There's Bibi fatigue. You know, you're not gonna win an election."

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