Danny Danon has a story to tell about the past, but his eye remains fixed on a political comeback at the highest level
As a leading Likud politician and Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations from 2015 to 2019, Danny Danon has a story to tell about the past, but his eye remains fixed on a political comeback at the highest level.
The title of his new book about his time in the UN, In the Lion’s Den: Israel and the World, speaks volumes about the uncompromising, right-wing values such as opposition to a two-state solution that Danon brought to the job.
His appointment was widely seen as an attempt by Bibi Netanyahu — whom Danon had challenged for the top job in Likud — to neutralize him as a political threat. Israeli media warned that the new ambassador’s political views made him anathema to the Obama administration, and would render him irrelevant.
But in his book, the former ambassador details why his pugilism was the right approach for a body that is structurally built around anti-Israel bias.
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