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Benjamin Netanyahu

Dem-o-krat-yah now!

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May 2023, no. 453
David N. Myers on the erosion of democracy in Israel

The recent pause announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing a controversial legislative package through the Knesset marks a temporary respite from a concerted plan to challenge and overturn the system of government that has been in place since the state of Israel was created in 1948.

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Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer

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November 2018, no. 406
Louise Adler reviews 'Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu' by Anshel Pfeffer

In 1901 the cultural Zionist Israel Zangwill, borrowing a phrase from Lord Shaftesbury, declared, ‘Palestine is a country without a people, the Jews are a people without a country.’ That cliché has continued to influence the impasse in the Middle East for almost a century ...

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