Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu     (Spook, Author, Businessman, Politician, Deep Politician)
Born	Benjamin Netanyahu 21 October 1949 Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
Religion	Jew
Parents	• Benzion Netanyahu • Tzila Segal
Children	• Noa Avner • Yair
Spouse	Miriam Weizmann
Member of	Le Cercle
Perpetrator of	2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza
Interest of	Sheldon Adelson, Haim Geron
Party	Likud
Prime Minister of Israel In office 31 March 2009 - Present Preceded by Ehud Olmert  Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel In office 14 May 2015 - Present Preceded by Avigdor Lieberman  Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel In office 18 December 2012 - 11 November 2013 Preceded by Avigdor Lieberman Succeeded by Avigdor Lieberman  Leader of the Opposition  In office 28 March 2006 - 31 March 2009  Minister of Finance In office 28 February 2003 - 9 August 2005  Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel In office 6 November 2002 - 28 February 2003  Prime Minister of Israel In office 18 June 1996 - 6 July 1999 Preceded by Shimon Peres Succeeded by Ehud Barak  Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel In office 6 January 1998 - 13 October 1998

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is the 9th Prime Minister of Israel, assuming office on 31 March 2009.

On 12 September 2002, Netanyahu testified under oath (as a private citizen) before the U.S. House of Representatives' "Committee on Oversight and Government Reform" about the nuclear threat posed by the Iraqi régime.

Six months later the United States, Britain and the coalition of the willing launched the Iraq War on the (false) premise that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that Saddam Hussein's government posed an imminent threat to the United States and its coalition allies.

Welcoming the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, Netanyahu said in a statement:

“President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel. We will work together to advance the security, stability and peace in our region. The strong connection between the United States and Israel is based on shared values, shared interests and a shared destiny."

Soldier

Binyamin Netanyahu joined the Israel Defence Forces shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967 and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He took part in many missions, including Operation Inferno (1968), Operation Gift (1968) and Operation Isotope (1972), during which he was shot in the shoulder. He fought on the front lines in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then leading a commando assault deep into Syrian territory. He achieved the rank of captain before being discharged.

Graduate

After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was recruited as an economic consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He returned to Israel in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute, named after his brother Yonatan, who died leading the July 1976 Operation Entebbe.

Diplomat

Binyamin Netanyahu served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988.

Politician

Netanyahu became the leader of the Likud party in 1993 and won the 1996 elections, becoming Israel's youngest ever Prime Minister, serving his first term from June 1996 to July 1999. He moved from the political arena to the private sector after being defeated in the 1999 election for prime minister by Ehud Barak. Netanyahu returned to politics in 2002 as Foreign Affairs Minister (2002–03) and Finance Minister (2003–05) in Ariel Sharon's governments, but he departed the government over disagreements regarding the Gaza disengagement plan. As Minister of Finance, Netanyahu engaged in a major reform of the Israeli economy, which was credited by commentators as having significantly improved Israel's subsequent economic performance. He retook the Likud leadership in December 2005, after Sharon left to form a new party, Kadima. In December 2006, Netanyahu became the official Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset and Chairman of Likud. Following the 2009 parliamentary election, in which Likud placed second and right-wing parties won a majority, Netanyahu formed a coalition government. After the victory in the 2013 elections, he became the second person to be elected to the position of Prime Minister for a third term, after Israel's founder David Ben-Gurion. In March 2015, Netanyahu was elected to his fourth term as prime minister.

Arrest petition

Following its launch in August 2015, a petition to the UK Government and Parliament was signed by over 100,000 people calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he holds talks in London this September: "Under international law Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014." None of the commercially-controlled media covered the story.

Once the petition reached 10,000 signers, the UK Government was obliged to respond, saying:

"Under UK and international law, certain holders of high-ranking office in a State, including Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs are entitled to immunity, which includes inviolability and complete immunity from criminal jurisdiction."

On 5 September 2015, The Times of Israel reported:

A petition on the British Parliament’s website urging the UK to arrest Netanyahu for “war crimes” has received more than 100,000 signatures, making the matter eligible for debate by lawmakers. The campaign reached its target on Saturday morning. Netanyahu will visit London this coming week for talks with British counterpart David Cameron. The two prime ministers are expected to discuss regional issues, with an emphasis on the Iran nuclear deal reached between world powers and Tehran on July 14. British officials told Channel 2 that Cameron plans to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and the Syrian civil war.

The Petitions Committee met on 8 September 2015 and reported:

"Because the Government said in its response that the request made by the petition was something that it was not able to do under UK and international law, the Committee agreed that it would not take any further action on the petition. It is still open to MPs who want a debate on this issue to find other opportunities, such as an application to the Backbench Business Committee."

On 9 September 2015, hundreds of protesters blocked the road outside 10 Downing Street as David Cameron met his "close friend" Benjamin Netanyahu. They included many Jews showing solidarity with the Palestinian people, and who also objected to Netanyahu's belief that Israel represents all of world Jewry.

Books and articles

Books

• A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations (Warner Books, 2000) ISBN 0-446-52306-2
• Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic And International Terrorism (Diane Pub Co, 1995) ISBN 0-7881-5514-8
• A Place Among the Nations (Bantam, 1993) ISBN 0-553-08974-9
• Terrorism: How the West Can Win (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986) ISBN 0-374-27342-1

Articles

• "On Terrorism"

Resources

Neocon Europe, Benjamin Netanyahu, Accessed 13-March-2009

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza	Gaza	After October 7, Israel invaded Gaza with widespread international support. The IDF went on a widely reported revenge killing spree. Even by Israel's own account, they killed 19,500 Palestinian civilians after half a year of bombing hospitals, schools and civilian towers, utilising numerous condemned tactics.

 

Quotes by Benjamin Netanyahu

Page	Quote	Date	Source
"9-11/Israel did it"	“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."”		Haaretz
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7	“Under no circumstances and at no stage was Prime Minister Netanyahu warned of war intentions on the part of Hamas. On the contrary, the assessment of the entire security echelon, including the head of military intelligence and the head of Shin Bet, was that Hamas was deterred and was seeking an arrangement".”	October 2023	Benjamin Netanyahu
Television	“I once said to the chair, the heads of the CIA, when I was prime minister, that if you want to advance regime change in Iran you don't have to go through the CIA cloak and dagger stuff. What you want to do is, is take very large, very strong transponders and just beam Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 2050 and all that, into, into Tehran and into Iran because that is subversive stuff. They watch with, the young kids watch it, the young people. They want to have the same nice clothes and the same houses and swimming pools and so on.”	12 September 2002	C-SPAN

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Sigrid Kaag	“Happily there were pro-Israeli demonstrators in Tel-Aviv that said the road of Benjamin Netanyahu, that soundbite, with an almost racist demagogue.... about the Palestinian peace-partner that has been isolated. But look at their environments, day in, day out, 1 million people are prisoners.”	Sigrid Kaag	10 June 1996
Mati Kochavi	“The memory of the Holocaust outside of Israel is disappearing,” Mr. Kochavi said in an interview. “We thought, let’s do something really disruptive. We found the journal and said, ‘Let’s assume that instead of pen and paper Eva had a smartphone and documented what was happening to her.’ So we brought a smartphone to 1944.” The buzz around the project has been intense. Even before the fictional Instagram account was activated, it had more than 200,000 followers, the result of an aggressive marketing campaign involving billboards and online promotions by celebrity social media influencers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the project.”	Mati Kochavi	30 April 2019

 

Event Planned

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	2 July 1979	5 July 1979	Israel Jerusalem	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Herzliya Conference/2006	21 January 2006	24 January 2006	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University	A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.
Herzliya Conference/2007	21 January 2007	24 January 2007	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University	"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."
Herzliya Conference/2009	2 February 2009	4 February 2009	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	2 July 1979	5 July 1979	Israel Jerusalem	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
Washington Conference on International Terrorism	24 June 1984	27 June 1984	US Washington DC	A key conference in establishing the "War On Terror", 5 years after the seminal Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

 

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