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Category Archives: Benjamin Netanyahu
Bitachon
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) said a man builds his life on two fears he will not name aloud. The first is that he dies. The second runs deeper. It is that his dying counts for nothing, that he goes into the … Continue reading
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Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
Part Two Yoram Reuben Hazony (b. 1964) belongs to a small group of contemporary thinkers who build not only books but movements. He writes philosophy, founds institutes, recruits donors, organizes conferences, and places himself at the center of a global … Continue reading
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Why Do Elites Hate Bibi Netanyahu?
Elites do not hate Benjamin Netanyahu for a single reason. They dislike him because he violates several norms that govern the Western foreign policy ecosystem, and those violations cut across policy, style, and power. Most Western elites operate inside a … Continue reading
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The Bibi Netanyahu Trajectory
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory reads Netanyahu as a master alliance broker whose power has always come from maintaining a very specific coalition geometry, and whose vulnerability now comes from that geometry collapsing. His rise. Netanyahu’s core super-alliance combined four blocs: … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: What if the WSJ Story of NSA Spying on Bibi and Overhearing US Reps Is Backward?
Steve Sailer writes: My guess would be that Bibi would be among the 10 hardest targets on earth, along with Obama, the old spy Putin, the president of France (a country that hates being spied upon by the Anglo-Saxon powers), … Continue reading
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NYT: Netanyahu Makes Quick Pivot From Loss on Iran Deal
Maybe his dramatic opposition to the deal was a deal-making ploy? Many Jewish organizations such as AIPAC have fundraised for millions by opposing the deal. NYTIMES.com: JERUSALEM — In the week since it became clear that Congress would not block … Continue reading
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Paul Gottfried: The American Right Should Respect Bibi
Paul Gottfried writes: For Bibi there is no realistic choice in negotiating with the Palestinians but to allow a two-state solution. Neither he and his party nor presumably those who belong to what is counterfactually called “the Zionist Union Left” … Continue reading
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