{"id":118067,"date":"2017-10-16T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118067"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:42:36","slug":"is-netanyahu-the-greatest-statesman-of-our-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118067","title":{"rendered":"Is Netanyahu The Greatest Statesman Of Our Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/okay-3\/#comments\">Comment<\/a>: Netanyahu, both personally and politically, is by far the greatest national leader of our age. He is a second founding father to his country, and his genius is proven by the dog that does not bark. Despite occasional rumblings on campus, BDS is a spent movement, and before it can even begin to get going again Israel will have quietly achieved, through creeping demographic conquest, the defacto and irreversible annexation of the West Bank and Jerusalem. And this time, through smart family planning policies, deployment of the latest security technologies (drones, Iron Dome, smart fences), and a general let\u2019s-keep-our-heads-down attitude-things-are-going-great there will be none of the public relations agony (Mohammad Dura, stalemate in Lebanon, weekly pizzeria bombings) that bedeviled it during the 90\u2032s and 00\u2032s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment: Netanyahu, both personally and politically, is by far the greatest national leader of our age. He is a second founding father to his country, and his genius is proven by the dog that does not bark. 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