In “Bibi: My Story,” by Benjamin Netanyahu, Simon & Schuster, 2022, Bibi has written an extensive and informative autobiography. He served with distinction in combat in the Israeli Special Forces, along with his brother Yonatan who was killed in the rescue at Entebbe, Uganda of Israeli citizens held hostage after being hijacked by four PLO and West German Red Army terrorists.
Bibi always put the safety of Israel first, and proudly says he puts the security of Israel first. He built a wall, before the Trump unfinished wall, on the southern Israeli border to stop the illegal immigration that had caused a spike crime and terrorism in Israel.
The most important accomplishment was to focus the “peace” talks with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and other Arab countries on the true cause of the failure of the peace talks.
The focus of the peace talks had always been on dealing with the PLO as the “centrality” of the issue. This meant in practice that the PLO had to be appeased by Israel giving up land to the PLO. This implied that the cause of the terrorism war against Israel was Israel, and if only Israel gave up land and did whatever the PLO wanted then the terrorism against Israel would end.
Bibi disagreed with this analysis. He stated the reason for the terrorism against Israel is many of the Arab countries and the PLO, specifically, did not and would not accept Israel’s right to exist. They wanted to destroy Israel, as Iran continues to declare.
Bibi’s analysis is supported by the historical evidence of the 1948 attack by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan immediately upon Israel’s formal birth as a nation. Next, Israel had to preemptively attack those countries in 1967 when it discovered they planned another attack. Further, Egypt again attacked in 1973. Israel was supported and saved by President Nixon’s supply of weapons in the Yom Kippur War. Israel suffered many casualties in these wars. Thereafter, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel during the Carter administration, but the attacks on Israel continued and shifted to an unrelenting terrorism by the PLO, Hamas, and other terrorist groups.
Clinton and Obama both attempted to solve the “peace talks” by focusing on Israel as the cause of the failure of the “peace talks” to force Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and Gaza. Clinton even sent his campaign hacks (Carville, Greenberg) to Israel to work against Bibi to help Ehud Barak in 1996, and again in 1999 to help Barak win. Talk about interfering with the election of another country.
Clinton got Ehud Barak to give the PLO over 90% of the land it wanted, with reserving some rights to Israel in those lands, but the PLO refused even this deal. This should have convinced Clinton and then Obama that the PLO did not want land or peace. The PLO did not accept Israel’s right to exist and wanted to destroy Israel.
Obama continued the same Clinton path to oppose Bibi and blame Israel. Obama’s representative was John Climate Boy Kerry. Enough said.
Clinton and especially Obama treated Israel as if it were an American city or state that they could order control. Obama treated Bibi in a condescending matter as if Bibi were a subordinate U.S. politician and not the Prime Minister of Israel.
Bibi also stressed the use of language, or abuse of language to frame the issues against Israel. For example, the term “Palestinians.” Palestine was a geographic term imposed by the Romans. Palestine was not a country in the modern sense. Jews and Arabs lived in the area. Jews have lived there for over 3,500 years. Palestinians are Arabs. But by using the word “Palestinian” it implies they are a separate race from Arabs and that they are the rightful owners of “Palestine.” The PLO and others make much of the Arab or Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars. But there were also over 800.000 Jewish refugees evicted by the Arabs who were welcomed and assimilated into Israel. The Jewish refugees were not kept in refugee camps to be used for political propaganda. Jordan and the other Arab countries refused to take in the Arab or Palestinian refugees, and Jordan expelled most of them.
This abuse of language continued with the term “occupied territories,” referring to the Golan Heights, Gaza, and the West Bank, as if these areas belonged to “Palestine,” a country that did not exist. Israel cannot give up the Golan Heights because Syria and others used those Heights to attack Israel. Moreover, these areas have been occupied by Jews for over 3,500 years.
President Trump was the first American president to work with Israel to reach peace treaties with four Arab countries in the Abraham Accords thereby bypassing the PLO, and isolating the PLO, by rejecting the Clinton-Obama focus on the “centralilty” of always dealing and appeasing the PLO as the first step towards peace. Trump also recognized Israel’s rights to the Golan Heights, and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Given Bibi’s dedication to the safety of Israel it is difficult to accept the Israeli Left’s opposition and hatred of Bibi. The Israeli Left and its lapdog Media attacked Bibi relentlessly, and Bibi had to face criminal charges over non-existent “crimes.” The USA Left, a/k/a Democrats and its lapdog media, used the same methods to impeach President Trump, and subject Trump to investigations and threats of prosecution.
Bibi’s autobiography contains many interesting stories and facts about Jewish history, the US-Israel relations, and Bibi’s views on world leaders and Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon, Golda Meier, Ehud Barak, Rabin, Begin, and others.
Interestingly Bibi had kind words for Biden who was more courteous and supportive than Obama, which makes political sense since Biden is the current President that Bibi has to deal with. But then Obama and Clinton set a low bar.
It is difficult to understand and accept the American Left’s hatred of President Nixon and President Trump, the two American presidents most supportive of Israel.
Why does the Left hate and seek to destroy those, like President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, who proudly stand and work for the safety of their country?
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Israel led by Bibi is a long time ally that the anti-Semite Brandon and his party of anti-Semites has abandoned.