5/9/2023 0 Comments Countrymen lend me your earsThe first time that Netanyahu became prime minister in 1996 after defeating Shimon Peres, his determination seemed hard and solemn. It thus requires a leader with the utmost dedication and determination, who doesn’t joke around and understands that when it comes security, no compromise is possible. It’s the only country that holds firm to the principles of Western values, while preserving Jewish tradition and history. This is an integral part of his drive: his perception, refined over time, that Israel is a small country with strong enemies and insecure borders that must be protected. His efforts to secure a vaccine deal with Pfizer early on was for him synonymous with saving Israel, which explains not only why he “obsessively” sought it out, but also did it better than any other world leader. His determined vaccination campaign is a testimony to his leadership. Netanyahu however, whose leadership is now interrupted and who’s future is uncertain, is a man at the center of major turning points in Israel’s recent history, the latest of which was the country’s victory in fighting COVID-19. This is in spite of the fact that many jurists consider the indictments to be false and spurious-particularly those involving his ostensibly having bribed a news outlet to obtain positive press coverage, which he never received, and that he received ridiculous gifts of cigars and champagne from powerful businessmen in exchange for favors. This is despite the fact that they have never been known to influence his clear, elaborate, Zionist strategy.Īnd, of course, the adjective “corrupt” is hurled at him ad abundantiam, due to his trial on charges of breach of trust, bribery and fraud. Nor has Netanyahu’s family been spared the wrath of his detractors, with his wife Sara’s personality, and his son Yair’s social-media posts part and parcel of the intolerance towards him. Similar words can and were said about Caesar, as well. This did not prevent him, however, from saving Europe from Adolf Hitler. The late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also had a problematic character. This is the main reason for the government sworn in today: its partners-from Yamina’s Naftali Bennett to Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, as well as from Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman to New Hope’s Gideon Sa’ar-all say that they have signed on to this unity government because they have been treated unjustly and with arrogance by Netanyahu. They depict him as a cutthroat, power-hungry politician who leaves no room for others. They treacherously insist that this has been Netanyahu’s intent.įor another, as they often repeat: Caesar, or rather Netanyahu, has a difficult personality. They list a number of reasons for these claims-which, by the way, far outweigh the unclear strategy of their eight-party governing coalition.įor one thing, they say, no matter how valuable a leader may be in a democracy, a 12-year term in power is an anomaly that (beyond arousing envy) has led to the undermining of democracy itself. Today, however, the new “noble” men and women of Israel’s next government not only say that their coalition is going to save the nation from them, but that they have accomplished an essential historical achievement.
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