There is much more in this book than the strategies of an economic miracle. Netanyahu is an avid student of history to the extent that he often was applauded at the UN and the US Congress when he discussed current political issues from the viewpoint of not repeating the past.

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Bibi: My Story is a surprisingly sentimental and ideologically thoughtful autobiography from a politician known for his cold, hard realism. Unlike other political autobiographies, which mostly serve to obscure their subjects, this one provides us with the tools to understand this signature figure in modern Jewish history . . . a far better book than we had any reason to think it would be.” In his memoir, Netanyahu doubles down on his embrace of the Covid vaccine and regrets easing up too early on pandemic closures, in hindsight a “cardinal mistake”. Here, the divide between Netanyahu and the other members of the populist right could not be starker. For him, modernity matters. Bob Menendez is alarmed. He is a Democrat, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and a major supporter of Israel. He led the fight against the Iran nuclear deal. As so often in US politics, the red-blue divide is on display and Israel is there in the middle. Netanyahu castigates Clinton and Obama for purported messianism and naivety but says nothing of his own bad callsHe is a man who can network with others and bring to his team remarkable talents, forming valuable relationships of respect with people from "both sides of the aisle" working effectively with both Trump and Biden. If that's not a challenge, I don't know what is. :) He seems to have perfected the "art of the deal" even more than Trump. In contrast to Netanyahu’s cultivation of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, Jabotinsky strongly opposed Abba Ahimeir and the maximalists in his Revisionist movement. Jabotinsky never wavered in his opposition to authoritarianism and illiberal thought. He died in the US in 1940, attempting to create a Jewish army to fight the Nazis. And finally, comparing still-minor contemporary figures (i.e., Ben-Gvir and Smotrich) to a giant of a century ago is puerile and gratuitous; it lays bare Schindler’s preference for personal bloviation over serious analysis. He then proves his own narcissism in concluding Jabotinsky view of Bibi’s autobiography would comport with Schindler’s as his own “review provides at least part of the answer.” Collect your thoughts in full honesty, in complete integrity with yourself, with what you truly believe.

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Netanyahu’s autobiography is primarily directed at an American audience. This is not surprising as he spent 18 years in the US, but it is also the country where power lies. Britain is, on the other hand, seen as an island off the coast of northern Europe that once occupied the Land of Israel. Yet Netanyahu does include some references to the United Kingdom. The former Israeli Ambassador to the UK and aide to Netanyahu, Mark Regev, is depicted as a regular ‘Sir Humphrey’, Alex Ferguson is demoted from manager to ‘coach’ while Sara Netanyahu, a devotee of ‘The Crown’, told Prince William how much she identified with his mother. Bibi is as polished, argumentative and fascinating as its author, a restless work in progress whose story is that of modern Israel."Netanyahu recalls the well-attended Israel Solidarity rally in Trafalgar Square in May 2002 in the midst of suicide bombings by Palestinian Islamists and falsehoods about the Jenin ‘massacre’, taken up by sections of the British media. There was considerable internal debate within Jewish leadership as to whether it was wise to call upon Netanyahu’s services to present the case for Israel. Netanyahu pledged not to be controversial, but on the day could not resist the temptation to reach rhetorical heights — telescoping Chamberlain, appeasement, Churchill, the British in Palestine, Palestinian terrorists, antisemites, Arafat and the PLO into one long monologue. Richard Harries, the then Bishop of Oxford, commented later that Netanyahu ‘used the occasion for his own political purposes’. Last, the history of Israel is extremely fascinating to me. As a Christian, I feel deeply connected to the Jewish people and Israel. This book provided a detailed, moving, firsthand account of the last 40 years of Israel’s history. I would love to visit the beautiful country again soon. That remarkable and unbelievable 4,000 year old story that we, his descendants, are still living today. Benjamin Netanyahu From this 2016 highlight, Netanyahu goes on to discuss the Trump and Biden administrations. Chapter 63: COVID 2019-2012, where many have strong reservations about his decisions to pursue full vaccination herd immunity, was revelatory of Mr. Netanyahu’s personal explanation for his actions -- and his conviction of their success.

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Israel’s politics are fractious and tribal. The far right grows as the left is decimated by the failed dream of the Oslo peace accords. Yet outside politics, things there are less fevered and acrid. Start-Up Nation has supplanted the kibbutz. Technology makes the desert bloom. Peter Robinson: Last question, "Bibi: My Story". "My parents' generation was tasked with founding the state of Israel. My generation was tasked with securing its future." Your parents' generation succeeded. Mr President,’ I said, ‘would you let a regime that wants to annihilate you set up a state at the George Washington Bridge? Of course not. Neither would we.’Peter Robinson: Christians, a special case. Small number, but down in Jerusalem, there is a historic presence. They've been a Christian community for 2000 years, formal Orthodox and Catholic presence for over 1000 years, where do they fit? Bibi Netanyahu: 102, and he was pretty, I would say that at the age of 100, he gave a speech, which is amazing, three minutes, after being feted by, you know, all these intellectuals and all these well wishers. And he came up to the stage at 100, no help, just came. And he said, "Well, it's all very kind of you, all the kind of things you said, but time is precious, so I'll limit my remarks. We have to stop Iran, that's how we safeguard Jewish history, thank you very much," and no more then. So he was very alert and acute intellectually until the end of his days. But I asked him before I became Prime Minister, I asked, he said first of all, "You sure you can do this? That, is get elected?" I said, "Yeah, I think I can be." And he said, "Well maybe so, but once you get in, the left will do everything to get you out." And I said, "Well, we'll see." By the way, he was right on that. There was certainly a point towards the end of 2021, when the new Bennett-Lapid government which had seemed so precarious from the start, looked like it may actually survive a while longer, after passing the state budget in November, when Netanyahu instructed his lawyers to start negotiations with the attorney-general over a possible plea bargain. That would have meant him receiving a reduced sentence in his long-going corruption case which at the very least would have barred him from running again for office for years to come. But the talks came to nothing and then the government lost its majority in early April and things began to look a lot different.

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I was not aware of Bibi’s actions in his early days in government to reform Israel’s economy from semi socialist to capitalist. This was really interesting. All of his arguments and comments about the changes he made work very well within the context of the capitalist system. Not much different that what Lee Kuan Yew accomplished in Singapore. Bibi is a skilled writer. Emotions, drama, technical, political - it’s all there and none of it is over the top. I was most impressed with his discussions about Clinton, Bush, Obama and Tump. After reading Kushner’s account of the Abraham Accord, Bibi’s accounting added the much need Israeli perspective. His information on Middle East relationships and the subterfuge by high ranking members of various countries is fascinating. The cabinet ministers were already busy munching away, passing dishes to one another. It reminded me of the Shabbat Breakfast Club in the synagogue in Hull, Massachusetts. Bibi Netanyahu: Well first of all, that's a decision of the voters, and the voters decided that. But the answer, the answer is a very simple one. Yes, I was there in office for quite a long time, altogether 15 years, which in a year will be the longest, the longest-serving leader of a democratic country in 53 years. So that's, so why did that happen? Well you know, people said, "There's Bibi fatigue. You know, you're not gonna win an election." When he was with Rivlin,” Netanyahu writes, “Trump blurted out, ‘Bibi doesn’t want peace.’ For some unfathomable reason, this bombshell wasn’t leaked.”

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Netanyahu offers colorful, detailed, and revealing bills of his regularly turbulent relationships and negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump. With eye-beginning candor, he delves into the returned channels of high diplomacy—inclusive of his battle in opposition to the radical forces that threaten Israel and the arena at large, and the decisive activities that brought about Israel`s groundbreaking 2020 peace agreements with 4 Arab states. Though each US Presidential Administration from President Truman on is discussed, the climax of the narrative comes in Chapter 54, fittingly titled “Never Again,” where Mr. Netanyahu gives his 2016 speech before the United States Congress in opposition to the Obama Administration’s disastrous Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran. The Prime Minister provides excerpts in the text, but I recommend watching the entire speech for yourself. In this link, Mr. Netanyahu enters the chamber at 22:32, and begins speaking at 26:49 after a brief appearance on screen of his wife, Sara.