Posted on 05/11/2024 8:36:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the words of Shakespeare: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Such is Benjamin Netanyahu.
Presently, the world press is tearing this man down, but he is arguably the greatest world leader of the past fifty years.
Does he have his faults? Yes! Who doesn’t?
But Netanyahu has had to navigate his country’s security through the decades when even his “friends” (Clinton, Bushes 1 & 2, Obama) wanted to enforce policies on Israel that were self-destructive. And his country had little margin of error if things went wrong.
Soon after he announced a new world order, George Bush, Sr. started pressuring Israel to accept the Oslo process at Madrid in 1991. The Arabist James Zogby has praised Bush Sr. for doing so.
“Bush established consequences for bad behavior, and he got results,” said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. “It can happen again.”
Bush Sr. was praised for being even-handed between the Arabs and the Israelis, but he was in bed with Arab oil money and interests. Netanyahu’s so-called “corruption” pales by comparison.
Clinton thought he had brought peace in 1993 with the Oslo Accords. That was a failure.
Bush Jr. was also part of this Bush-Saudi oil interest. His administration would later encourage Israel to allow the 2006 elections in Gaza (with the approval of Jimmy Carter) that would get Hamas elected.
The Carter Centre and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) considered the 2006 elections to have “compared favorably to international standards ... with polling results reflect[ing] the will of the people.”
Of course, it is now obvious that the Palestinians were never interested in peace, but rather in conquest. Netanyahu was warning everyone about that, even in the 1990s.
Has Netanyahu made mistakes. Who hasn’t.
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“The leftist media despise him, but the truth is that he is arguably the greatest world leader of the last fifty years”
Because, not but.
Arguably? No.
The "greatest world leaders in the last fifty years" is the triumvirate of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.
Benjamin Netanyahu was a supporting actor at the time. The fact that he's now come into his own prime at a time when there are no supporting actors to back him up is the cruelty of time (something Republicans never understood re: the expiration of political capital).
-PJ
No president ever did half as much for Israel as Trump.
I think the picture on the right is Yoni Netanyahu, not Bibi.
I don’t know. The meme is one of my favorites though I know not its origin.
That is Bibi. Widely used photo in Israel. Yoni has a little squarer face and less curly hair. Easy to tell apart.
https://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Yonatan-Netanyahus-odyssey-From-Harvard-to-Entebbe
>> The “greatest world leaders in the last fifty years” is the triumvirate of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.
What you’re saying is that at the moment of a particular snapshot in time, the leaders above were crucial.
Well, I say move the camera forward to NOW and yes, Bibi Netanyahu (AND Donald Trump) are of equal import.
Add Milei, Meloni and Viktor Orban to my snapshot.
The category you’re reaching for is “Men and women raised up by GOD for such a time as this”...
That was like Trump saying nice things about Kim Jung Un. It was diplomacy. Biden is an existential threat to Israel, and he has to be managed.
That's fine, but the headline I was responding to was "the greatest world leader of the last fifty years."
-PJ
bkmk
Did we really all forget his Pfizer Fascism so quickly?
The Israeli Orthodox Jews who were shouting out to the world for help against the Fascism he imposed on them could never forget this. How could Freepers be so quick to do so?
Jewish Democrats hate him, which automatically makes him a good guy.
Voting for Kennedy are ya, TDS boy? Or maybe you prefer to mainline your stupid so you’ll pull the lever for your hero Biden.
I thought this one of the Breitbart twins at first lol
It's stuff like that that brought on this great punishment from HaShem. Doing the same is NOT going to make things any better.
I think you're responding to the wrong person.
(I made a comment about Netanyahu's participation in a crime against the Jewish state; it had nothing to do with our elections here in the US.)
He is good, but I beg to differ on “world’s greatest.”
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