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Bibi - The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu (Hardcover)
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Bibi - The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu (Hardcover)
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A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime
Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history,
present, and future -- without first understanding the life and
worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled
in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted
from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli Prime
Minister outside of David Ben Gurion. But Bibi, as he is known by
friend and foe alike, is no stranger to controversy. For many in
Israel and elsewhere, he is an embarrassment, a threat to
democracy, even a precursor to Donald Trump. He nevertheless
continues to dominate Israeli public life -- and he may yet survive
his current crises, the most challenging of his career. How can we
explain Netanyahu's rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his
outsized role on the world's stage? In Bibi, the Haaretz journalist
Anshel Pfeffer argues that we must view Netanyahu as representing
the triumph of the underdogs in the Zionist enterprise. Born in
1949, one year after the state of Israel itself, Netanyahu came of
age in a nation dominated by liberal, secular Zionists. Yet
Netanyahu's grandfather and father bequeathed to him a brand of
Zionism integrating Jewish nationalism and religious
traditionalism, and he identified with the groups at the margins of
Israeli society: right-wing Revisionists, orthodox, Mizrahi Jews,
and small-time professionals living in the new towns and cities
dotting the Israeli landscape. Netanyahu cultivated each faction
individually and then fused them into a coalition that has
frequently proven unstoppable in Israeli politics. Netanyahu is
also a child of America, where he spent many years as a young man,
and where he learned the techniques of modern political campaigns
as well as the necessity of controlling the media cycle. The
product of the affluent East Coast Jewish community and the Reagan
era, Netanyahu's politics and worldview were formed as much by
American Cold War conservatism as by his family's hardline
right-wing Zionism. As Pfeffer demonstrates in this penetrating
biography, Netanyahu's influence will endure even if his career
soon comes to an end. The Israel he has helped make is a hybrid of
ancient phobia and high-tech hope, tribalism and globalism -- just
like the man himself.
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