Bibi, My Story

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s new book Bibi: My Story [is] worthy of being added to the shelf in a place of honor . . . the world will understand him and his country better as a result of this book."

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Avraham is commanded to Lech Lecha - literally to “go forth for yourself” - or which can also be understand as: “within yourself” - from his land, birthplace and father’s house to the land that Hashem will show him. 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.”If we get a lot of mandates, we will have the legitimacy to demand significant portfolios such as the defense and the treasury,” Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party, declares. That remarkable and unbelievable 4,000 year old story that we, his descendants, are still living today. Netanyahu describes how he and Friedman contrived to play Trump a video meant to “adjust his thinking about Mahmoud Abbas, and about” Netanyahu. The tape portrayed the Palestinian leader as two-faced, talking peace in English and praising terrorists in Arabic. Beautiful thing with this book is the tone of Bibi in orating his story. He articulate so much insightful and serious subjects; diplomacy, international politics, economy, history but in a very fascinating and subtly humourous way. Well, he a hell of a story teller!

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Second, his relationship with many US presidents is fascinating. I appreciate his candor regarding differences of opinion (most starkly with Obama, whose geopolitical perspective he summarizes well), but his respect for each leader is obvious. He speaks generously of all. But, like all autobiographies, it can get a bit tedious because of the details. However, it is better to have them and be able to reference them than to not have them and have an incomplete picture.Five years later, Netanyahu has now written his memoirs, published simultaneously in English and Hebrew, and we still don’t know what was said at that meeting, but that’s not surprising. In the big scheme of Netanyahu’s 73 years of life, it probably wasn’t that important to begin with. But reading Bibi: My Life, I kept thinking of the second part of Netanyahu’s answer. He didn’t intend to publish this book in 2022. What he calls ‘the hiatus’ that allowed him to write the book in nine months of feverish scribbling was unplanned. If it had been up to him, he certainly wouldn’t have had the hiatus. Bibi Netanyahu: That innovation is critical. Israel's value to the United States is rising as our capacity to innovate and technologize is rising. Based on the latest polls, he has a serious shot at re-election but is not quite there. A win could mean immunity from prosecution. That decision will rest with his coalition partners – if he wins. Bibi Netanyahu: Yes, I think that's the interesting point, I think Peter. That they, people have understood that. That I think basically the socialist economic ethos is gone, and maybe that's something that I-

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Peter Robinson: A few last questions here. Henry Kissinger once argued that after an especially disruptive or activist leader, and he wrote this after Margaret Thatcher left office, "A political system needs time to recover, and needs time to consolidate." Ze'ev Chafets on the Bennett government that succeeded you in 2021. Quote, "After more than a decade under Bibi, Israel needed a change." Okay, you know the argument. It runs from, "This is a remarkable man, but we can't take it anymore," over to, "Oh scandal, I don't know what he did, but why do we have to have more," to, "Bibi's older now." So how do you answer this argument? Here you are, you've been to the people of Israel and asked them to make you Prime Minister again, and they have said yes. What is the argument that Bibi can still offer, what service can you render the state of Israel that no one else can?

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Peter Robinson: Exactly, exactly. But even without the nuclear program, Iran has the oldest drone program in the Middle East. It has the biggest arsenal of ballistic weapons in the Middle East, this is an assessment by the American DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, which calls Iran's arsenal, quote, "The largest and most diverse ballistic arsenal in the Middle East, with a substantial inventory of missiles that can strike targets throughout the region." Throughout the region means here. Now let me go to a recent article by Michael Doran and Can Kasapoglu in "The Tablet". "American and its allies spend more money," its allies meaning you, "spend more money, tens or hundreds of times more, to down Iranian missiles and drones than it costs Iran to build and launch them. More importantly, some of Iran's missiles and drones will inevitably break through." They argue in "The Tablet" that Iran is achieving overmatch, that is the moment when offensive capabilities can simply smother defensive capabilities. And they write, quote, "Defensive systems alone cannot reverse overmatch. Offensive countermeasures are the sole means to restore the balance," close quote. So what they argue, what really intelligent people who are paying attention argue is, even without its nuclear problem, Iran is a grave threat. Is that correct? Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the ninth and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving since March 2009. Netanyahu also serves as the current Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.