Why Israel continues to choose Netanyahu

Bibi did it again. For the fourth time in a row, he won the national elections in Israel.

With an advantage of about 14,000 votes over the blue and white party of his opponent Benny Gantz, the Likud, although the parity of seats in Parliament is comparable to that of the other party, is better placed to form a government coalition. Entering his fifth term, Netanyahu will overtake the country's founder, the legendary David Ben-Gurion, as the government's oldest prime minister. Ariel Sharon called the bulldozer. How to categorize a politician who does not stop to succeed democratically? His followers bear the nickname of Bibi melej Israel (Bibi King of Israel), which emerges from the paraphrase of a traditional Hebrew song about King David. And yes, Netanyahu has just been crowned again as the most outstanding and most contemporary national political figure of contemporary Israel.

At the age of sixty-nine, Netanyahu seems to have concentrated several lives into one. He was a soldier, elite commando, diplomat, economic consultant, writer, parliamentarian, leader of the opposition, and multitasking politician: Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Communication. He was an unusually eloquent ambbadador to the United Nations (a forum particularly hostile to Israel), on par with, but surpbading, the whimsical Abba Eban. He knew how to use his power of speaker as a politician and diplomat to defend his country in the field of public relations because he was able to defend him once on the battlefield as a soldier and military commander. Like Winston Churchill, Netanyahu also "went from English to war", solely to serve his beleaguered little nation in the international press space.

Son of a prominent historian specializing in the Spanish Inquisition, younger brother of the late leader of the rescue operation of hostages held at Entebbe, trained at Harvard and MIT, Netanyahu first been recognized for his skills as an anti-terrorist expert. After his role as publisher of a book in 1987, Terrorism: How can the West win? he was encouraged as an author in 1996 with Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat National and International Terrorism, who dedicated it as an authority on the subject. His moral and conceptual clarity can be seen in this quote from him:

"By its very nature, the inhumane method chosen by terrorists to achieve their end disqualifies the end from the beginning as worthy of moral support … It is not only that the end of terrorists do not justify the means they have chosen, their choice of means It indicates what are its true purposes: Far from being freedom fighters, terrorists are precursors of tyranny. "

If with these works he established himself as a respected authority in the fight against terrorism, it is nevertheless with the book published among them that Netanyahu has become a real intellectual advocate of Israel. Through the more than 450 pages that make up A place among the nations: Israel and the world (1993), Netanyahu presented the case in favor of his country with a devastating historical and logical basis, offering a complete answer to Arab-Palestinian propaganda and Western progressive criticism. Go to another example of an appointment:

"The Jewish people have been facing defamation for generations, but the scale of this century's slander against Israel and Israel has been far reaching, far-reaching, far-reaching and devastating. previously, that these defamations can be refuted and that the battle for truth can be won, that open-minded people can see the difference between the endless slander against the Jewish state and the truth without when the facts are presented before them. "

Published the same year that Shimon Peres highlighted his work co-authored with Arye Naor, The new Middle East, Netanyahu's text would become the realistic antidote to the fantasies contained in the Peres book, which fought for an accepted Israel in an economically integrated and politically pacified Middle East. With the advent of the Oslo era that same year – the famous agreements with the PLO Ybader Arafat, the hopes of peace in the air, the frenzy of global optimism – Netanyahu seemed confined to the role of the prophet who cries in the desert. Contrary to the ecstasy promoted by the Labor Party, he insisted on denouncing the misconceptions on which this controversial pact rested. When the Palestinian Intifada of 2000 was buried under violence, the promised peace in Oslo, Netanyahu was defended ideologically, although his political consecration had to wait nine years. In 2009, he was elected for the second time as Prime Minister and since then he has been re-elected permanently.

During its last decade in power, Israel has grown economically, consolidated itself into a vanguard technological power, its diplomatic relations (especially with the Sunni world, Latin America and Eastern Europe) are developed and the country has been vigorously defended against its relentless Islamist enemies like Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as non-Islamist Syria. Because of its proximity to Donald Trump or not, the truth is that under his government, the United States abandoned the nuclear deal with Iran, moved its embbady to Jerusalem, recognized sovereignty Israel on the strategic heights of the Golan, have repudiated the virulent anti-Zionism and UNESCO. pushed the Palestinian national cause to the margins of world diplomacy. Even Vladimir Putin, generally hostile, had political courtesy with Netanyahu during the election campaign, facilitating the discovery of an Israeli soldier who died in Lebanon nearly forty years ago. Similarly, the new President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, made his contribution during the visit to Netanyahu of the Wailing Wall a few days ago, contrary to the usual diplomatic tradition of denying the evidence. And very recently, an Israeli satellite entered lunar orbit, which led the small Jewish state to the door of the select club of space powers.

"Even the combined forces of three former Israeli Defense Force leaders can not compete with a prime minister who is now heading for his fifth term," wrote David Horovitz, Israel 's editor, at the press conference. dawn. Times of Israell. Native survivor, with an admirable size and an unparalleled strategic vision, Netanyahu has triumphed.