Netanyahu also writes about his admiration for Margaret Thatcher and the crushing of the miners’ strike in the 1980s. He writes that the Israeli economy was then ‘mired in an antiquated semi-socialist bog’ and that Thatcher’s example inspired him to confront the Histadrut and the ‘unionised welfare state’. This moved him to privatise El Al, Zim, Bezeq, Bank Hapoalim and the Israel Discount Bank as Minister of Finance under Ariel Sharon. To read this autobiography is to read the history of Israel and its growth into one of the strongest nations in the world. We are tech professionals, business leaders, marketers, students, chefs, cinematographers, doctors, lawyers, accountants and educators.

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Peter Robinson: And faster. Does that, that in itself ought to create or could create some diplomatic, some greater scope for real cooperation between the two countries. Is that right? Bibi took me to another crash course of Israel, not the one that I read in the bible, not that we have been reading about and hearing on the news. Bibi tells the story of the People and how one man, dedicated his life and committed to making Israel one of the superpowers in the world. Avraham is commanded to Lech Lecha - literally to “go forth for yourself” - or which can also be understand as: “within yourself” - from his land, birthplace and father’s house to the land that Hashem will show him. Bibi Netanyahu: That innovation is critical. Israel's value to the United States is rising as our capacity to innovate and technologize is rising.

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Starting in Russia, Netanyahu’s direct progenitors crisscross the globe with notable stops in the United States, Great Britain, throughout Europe, and the city that is the focus of their aspirations, Jerusalem. Into this family, Yonathan, Benjamin, and Iddo are born. The boys grow up with their father’s career taking them between Israel and the United States, into young men and serve in the armed forces for Israel, when personal tragedy strikes the family. This tragedy directs Mr. Netanyahu to assume leadership of an international counterterrorism foundation. Netanyahu notes that he regularly studied the weekly Torah portion with his son. Yet in political life, he has ignored the universalism within Judaism and its concern for global justice.” On 30 April, Netanyahu went public about the raid. In Israel, he faced criticism for divulging details of a Mossad operation. In his book, he denies any breach of secrecy and says he was only discussing results. Bibi Netanyahu: Yeah, and he said, well it wasn't good for him. He said, "That's something anybody who leads any organization needs, whether you're a dean of a university or a head of a company or even a military leader, it's the same answer." So I said, "All right, so what do you think is the answer, Father?" And he thought for a minute, and then he said one word that absolutely floored me. He said, "Education, you need a very broad and deep education, otherwise you'll be at the mercy of your clerks." That's what he said. And you have to, you have to be able to, not to be at the mercy of your clerks. To take expert opinion, but ultimately to chart your course, you need a broad and deep education.

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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. Bibi Netanyahu: It is the best kind of plagiarism that I could have, although I didn't know he said that, that's all right.These are just a handful of folks that I serve with that dropped everything the moment they heard their country was in need. And finally, comparing still-minor contemporary figures (i.e., Ben-Gvir and Smotrich) to a giant of a century ago is puerile and gratuitous; it lays bare Schindler’s preference for personal bloviation over serious analysis. He then proves his own narcissism in concluding Jabotinsky view of Bibi’s autobiography would comport with Schindler’s as his own “review provides at least part of the answer.” Peter Robinson: So let me try a thought out on you. This is, I'm not sure, I'm not at all sure I'm right about this, but it strikes me as plausible. I'd like to hear what you make of it. Observation about American strategy. Since at least the Civil War, the American way of war has relied on superior materiel. Grant just grinds down Robert E. Lee, and that's how the Civil War ends. And in the Second World War- In writing his own history during the Bennett-Lapid interregnum, dictated when he was out of office, Netanyahu does not appear to have taken his own advice. Netanyahu’s autobiography is more Hollywood than history. The book is ‘Bibi-lite’, stripped of ideology and inconvenient facts — and made palatable for a diaspora audience. It is a stream of consciousness rather than a factual, informed life story. Bibi is a skilled writer. Emotions, drama, technical, political - it’s all there and none of it is over the top. I was most impressed with his discussions about Clinton, Bush, Obama and Tump. After reading Kushner’s account of the Abraham Accord, Bibi’s accounting added the much need Israeli perspective. His information on Middle East relationships and the subterfuge by high ranking members of various countries is fascinating.

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But in unconventional scenes similar to those in countless books of reportage and Trump tell-alls, Netanyahu also says that to sway Trump from his desire to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians and to scotch his positive first impression of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, the Israelis deployed golfing metaphors and maps of New York City. I thought about my wife and the kids, how under normal circumstances I’d be at home, making kiddush dressed in Shabbat finest, the table perfectly laden with Challot and dips, my 5 year old son singing the prayer with me. Now we are all dressed in green, rifles draped over shoulders, prepared to fight - and even to sacrifice - for our country. Peter Robinson: Exactly, exactly. But even without the nuclear program, Iran has the oldest drone program in the Middle East. It has the biggest arsenal of ballistic weapons in the Middle East, this is an assessment by the American DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, which calls Iran's arsenal, quote, "The largest and most diverse ballistic arsenal in the Middle East, with a substantial inventory of missiles that can strike targets throughout the region." Throughout the region means here. Now let me go to a recent article by Michael Doran and Can Kasapoglu in "The Tablet". "American and its allies spend more money," its allies meaning you, "spend more money, tens or hundreds of times more, to down Iranian missiles and drones than it costs Iran to build and launch them. More importantly, some of Iran's missiles and drones will inevitably break through." They argue in "The Tablet" that Iran is achieving overmatch, that is the moment when offensive capabilities can simply smother defensive capabilities. And they write, quote, "Defensive systems alone cannot reverse overmatch. Offensive countermeasures are the sole means to restore the balance," close quote. So what they argue, what really intelligent people who are paying attention argue is, even without its nuclear problem, Iran is a grave threat. Is that correct? Netanyahu castigates Clinton and Obama for purported messianism and naivety but says nothing of his own bad calls. For instance, in September 2002, he testified before Congress in support of the Iraq war.I don’t know what the future holds, but I feel confident and optimistic serving alongside these guys. Peter Robinson: The other way around, okay, all right. So if it's true that the United States now find itself in something like the same strategic box that Israel has always been in, outnumbered, often outspent. You have to be smarter, you have to be innovative.

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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. Benjamin Netanyahu's autobiography is one of history’s great Zionist texts. Most politicians’ autobiographies are turgid affairs . . . Then there is Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography, which is not a politician’s autobiography at all, but an adventure story dressed up as one. It is a Tom Clancy novel written for a Tom Cruise movie adaptation, posing as a normal politician’s memoir.”

Hardly a charm offensive, this is a straightforward account and defense of the author’s hard-line positions. 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. I took the measure of the man,” he claims. Once upon a time, George W Bush claimed to have looked into Putin’s soul. We know how that ended. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney and Joe Biden got the Russian leader right from the off. Meanwhile, Trump lashes out at American Jews for not showing him the love evangelicals do: “US Jews need to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – Before it is too late!” Based on the latest polls, he has a serious shot at re-election but is not quite there. A win could mean immunity from prosecution. That decision will rest with his coalition partners – if he wins.