Netanyahu has come to resemble his hero in two ways he could never have imagined
The White House announcement might have been a dream come true, but on the long transatlantic flight there, sleep was the last thing on Netanyahu’s mind. According to an informed source (Mishpacha’s Hebrew correspondent, taking a midflight amble up the aisle), the prime minister spent the time reading a biography of Winston Churchill.
Bibi’s Churchill fixation is the stuff of journalistic lore. To his detractors, Netanyahu is a wannabe Winston, exaggerating the threat posed by the Iranian ayatollahs for political gain. To his supporters, his long, lonely battle to focus world attention on the Iranian nuclear program recalls Churchill’s wilderness years in the 1930s, fighting the apathetic British response to a rearming Germany.
But as Israel prepares for its third election in a year with a prime minister under indictment, Netanyahu has come to resemble his hero in two ways he could never have imagined.
Start with foreign policy. In the second half of World War II, the British Empire was a crumbling giant. Impoverished and overstretched, it was clear that it belonged to the past, and that America and the USSR would dominate the future.
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