Benjamin Netanyahu

Bibi: My Story’ due out in November Netanyahu autobiography ‘Bibi: My Story’ due out in November

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. Peter Robinson: What gave you the intellectual courage to think such, not only independent, but almost, in an ideological sense, almost treasonous thoughts. Today I heard some incredible words of wisdom - they didn’t come from a Rabbi - they actually came from a non-religious Israeli singer. The PLO rightly comes in for harsh criticism, but all acts of terror are attributed to a monolithic organisation, controlled by Arafat — other Palestinian actors are rarely mentioned. Netanyahu comments that ‘Palestinian terrorists’ had attempted to murder Shlomo Argov, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK outside the Dorchester Hotel in June 1982. He continues: ‘Israel sent its army to South Lebanon — the area that the PLO had taken over and turned into an anti-Israel mini-state’. As history records, all this led to the debacle of the first Lebanon war — no songs were written about this war.

Peter Robinson: That looks good, you're talking to Saudi Arabia or, what am I allowed to ask and what are you allowed to say? Now we are all dressed in green, rifles draped over shoulders, prepared to fight - and even to sacrifice - for our country. I was not aware of Bibi’s actions in his early days in government to reform Israel’s economy from semi socialist to capitalist. This was really interesting. All of his arguments and comments about the changes he made work very well within the context of the capitalist system. Not much different that what Lee Kuan Yew accomplished in Singapore. Netanyahu offers colorful, detailed, and revealing bills of his regularly turbulent relationships and negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump. With eye-beginning candor, he delves into the returned channels of high diplomacy—inclusive of his battle in opposition to the radical forces that threaten Israel and the arena at large, and the decisive activities that brought about Israel`s groundbreaking 2020 peace agreements with 4 Arab states.

Book review of Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu and Bibi

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: They fit right there. I mean, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that categorically and absolutely allows freedom of worship, access to the holy places and so on. And otherwise, otherwise it would be a tinder box here. I mean, I call the Temple Mount in Jerusalem the most explosive square mile in the world. And yet it is only under Israeli sovereignty that the freedom of faiths of all three major monotheistic faiths has been guaranteed. When the Muslims ruled the Temple Mount, the Jews and the Christians were excluded. When the Christians under the Crusaders ruled it, the Jews and the Muslims were excluded. But it's only under Israel that no one is excluded. And that, obviously you have flare-ups here and there, but it's that policy that I will continue of ensuring a status quo which allows the freedom of religion, freedom of worship for all three religions, that it can be secured. And most people, when they eye it, objectively understand that.

Book Review | Bibi: My Story

I think the choice of Iraq is a good choice, it’s the right choice,” he said, adding: “It’s not a question of whether Iraq’s regime should be taken out but when should it be taken out. It’s not a question of whether you’d like to see a regime change in Iran but how to achieve it.” Bibi Netanyahu: You could call me Royal Highness. Excellency, all these. Call me whatever you want. 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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The book opens heroically with Netanyahu’s time in the Sayeret Matkal — Israel’s remarkable commando force that has defended Israelis and Jews against lethal forces. He is rightly proud of his service and his participation in the storming of the Sabena flight at Lod airport in 1972. 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. From the opening chapters to Bibi: My Story, I did not like the title. This is neither a simple nor sterile personal political biography. Netanyahu’s account is foundationally a love story that spans thousands of years. I’m not talking about men and women, as women come and go throughout the lives of Bibi and his brothers (after all, he is on his third marriage!). Netanyahu remains tight lipped about courtships, marriages, divorces, and how births expanded their family, merely reporting in brief rational paragraphs that they occurred.But most, if not all the manuscript had been written by then and in parts, it seems to have been therapeutic for Netanyahu, as if he was both establishing his legacy and place of history, but also convincing himself, not just the readers, that he remains Israel’s essential leader.

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Bibi Netanyahu is the longest serving Prime Minister of Israel (15 years) and is the first Prime Minister to be born in Israel after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. He served as Prime Minister from 1996-1999 (during the Clinton administration) and from 2009-2021 (during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, and has served as Prime Minister again since December 2022. This book includes very interesting anecdotes of Bibi’s personal relationships and political negotiations with each of these presidents, as well as his negotiations with key players for the Palestinians and the Arab states. He is candid about the mistakes he made in his tenure as Prime Minister as well as his successes. 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. 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. PDF / EPUB File Name: Bibi_My_Story_-_Benjamin_Netanyahu.pdf, Bibi_My_Story_-_Benjamin_Netanyahu.epub Bibi Netanyahu: And inequality went down as our GDP per capita went up. And now it's superseded Germany's, by the way.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.