Benjamin Netanyahu
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli deep politician who became the Prime Minister of Israel again on 31 March 2009.[1][2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
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."[5]
Contents
Career
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.[6][7] He achieved the rank of captain before being discharged.
Deep Politician
After graduating from MIT, 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. In 1979 this groupconvened the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, which established the direction of the deep state "war on terror" project. In the 1980s this project was to framed the discourse about "terrorism" and "counter-terrorism" to try to legitimize actions taken by the Israel government against Palestinians.[8] Binyamin Netanyahu was 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.[9] 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,[10] Netanyahu formed a coalition government.[11][12] 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.[13][14][15]
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."[16] 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."[17]
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.[18]
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.[19]
Police interrogation
In January 2017, Netanyahu was interrogated at his home by Israeli police for three hours regarding alleged corruption.[20] In February 2018 Israeli police recommended indicting him for bribery.[21]
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
Resources
Neocon Europe, Benjamin Netanyahu, Accessed 13-March-2009
An event carried out
Event | Location | Description |
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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 |
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"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
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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 |
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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 |
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Herzliya Conference/2006 | 21 January 2006 | 24 January 2006 | Israel Reichman University Herzliya | 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 Reichman University Herzliya | |
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 | Switzerland | |
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 |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger | Article | 3 January 2020 | Jefferson Morley | Donald Trump has now fulfilled the wishes of Mossad. After proclaiming his intention to end America’s “stupid endless wars,” the president has effectively declared war on the largest country in the region in solidarity with Israel, the most unpopular country in the Middle East. |
Document:Anatomy of a Scandal: Israel Crucifies Corbyn | Article | 14 August 2014 | Michael W. Howard | "Tom Watson has it backward: the 'eternal shame and embarrassment' come when Labour, swallowing whatever pride it has left, meekly submits to being harassed and blackmailed by a foreign power and its vulgar propagandists. Jeremy Corbyn, it seems, is gearing up to do just that. Chalk one up for Goebbels." |
Document:David Cameron in the Knesset. March 2014 | article | 26 March 2014 | Francis Carr Begbie | A brief run down on the espionage involvement of Israeli firms active in the UK and US on the occasion of the visit of UK PM David Cameron to Israel on 12 March 2014 |
Document:Exclusive: I Can Reveal the Legal Advice on Drone Strikes, and How the Establishment Works | article | 9 September 2015 | Craig Murray | Craig Murray reveals how Sir Daniel Bethlehem continues to bring a Zionist perspective to any legal advice emanating from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Document:Gaza massacre should be a turning point for British Jews | blog post | 16 May 2018 | Aron Keller | The 2018 Gaza Massacre represents a turning point which eliminates any existing moral ambiguity around Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. The sheer scale of the bloodshed makes the cognitive dissonance required for any decent individual to absolve Israel of culpability too difficult to sustain. |
Document:Goldstone: An act of negligence | Article | 4 April 2011 | Noura Erakat | Downplay of Israeli aggression towards civilians during the Gaza War, causes scholars to question Richard Goldstone. Regardless of what may have been his best intentions, Goldstone has negligently, one hopes not deliberately, undermined the laws of armed conflict and emboldened those states, like Israel, who believe that it is a surmountable nuisance. |
Document:Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell accused of anti-Semitism over Razan al-Najjar image | Article | 7 June 2018 | Mike Sivier | Mrs May couldn’t care any less about the death of this young woman than Mr Netanyahu – she is deeply in cahoots with the Israeli government |
Document:Israel Stooges Freak Out over Baroness Jenny's Remarks - Again | Article | 3 November 2018 | Stuart Littlewood | Baroness Jenny Tonge: "The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was an absolutely appalling and a criminal act, but does it ever occur to Bibi and the present Israeli government that its actions against Palestinians may be reigniting anti-Semitism? I suppose someone will say that it is anti-Semitic to say so?" |
Document:Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State | Article | 2 March 2021 | Oliver Eagleton | Keir Starmer is sometimes praised for being an outsider in the world of politics (or mocked as too lawyerly and insufficiently political). But in reality, much of his work as Director of Public Prosecutions blurred the boundaries between prosecutor and politician – following the dictates of the Cameron coalition, negotiating with foreign officials on its behalf, and dropping or pursuing cases according to its interests. |
Document:Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots | Article | 16 July 2011 | Christopher Bollyn | “For some reason, Keith Rupert Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother, Elisabeth Joy Murdoch (née Greene), brought him up as a Jew.” |
Document:Only a failing US empire would be so blind as to cheer Netanyahu and his genocide | Article | 26 July 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Members of the US Congress roared “USA!” to their satrap from Israel, just as Roman senators once roared “Glory!” to generals whose victories they assumed would continue forever. Every empire falls. Its collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become. |
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
Document:The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face | Article | 30 April 2024 | Jonathan Cook | "The western media is pretending the West’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance by Israel and the United States. Our job is to do everything in our power to stop them making their plan a reality." |
Document:The Presence of Evil | Wikispooks Page | 25 July 2024 | Craig Murray | Netanyahu’s slanderous attacks on the institutions of international law were applauded to the rafters by America’s political leaders. The whole world was watching, and took note. The Zionist project per se is evil. To steal another people’s land and subject them to long and progressive genocide is about as evil a deed as can be imagined. |
Document:The method in Netanyahu's madness | speech | 18 July 2011 | Jonathan Cook | |
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Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves | Article | 26 May 2018 | Whitney Webb | Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems. |
Document:Trump said to deprecate Netanyahu's intention to bump off Assad | Article | 1 September 2017 | Eric Zuesse | Better wait until my fundamentalist VP is in place, Benny boy! |
Document:Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads | Article | 30 May 2018 | Jonathan Cook | Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia |
Document:Watch the West continue to make a mockery of international law | blog post | 19 July 2024 | Jonathan Cook | The World Court concludes that the Palestinians are owed massive reparations. At a bare minimum, western governments must recognise the state of Palestine and impose sanctions on Israel until it withdraws from the occupied territories. |
Document:Why I No Longer Stand with Israel, and Never Will Again | Article | 15 October 2023 | Scott Ritter | "I stand with Palestine, because I stand for the children of Israel and Palestine, knowing full well that the only chance they have of a future where they can live together as neighbours united in peace, instead of enemies united in war, is for a free and independent Palestine to exist." (Scott Ritter) |
Document:Worse Than You Can Imagine | blog post | 26 April 2024 | Craig Murray | The political class, across the Western world and the Arab world, is utterly divorced from its people over Gaza. We are seeing worldwide repression, as peaceful conferences are stormed by police in Germany, students are beaten by police on American campuses, and in the UK old white people like me suffer the kind of continual harassment long suffered by young Muslim men. |
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References
- ↑ The Enduring Influence of Benjamin Netanyahu's Father Judy Dempsey, 3 May 2012, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- ↑ David Remnick (23 January 2013). "Bibi's Blues". The New Yorker.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Netanyahu was wrong about Iraq having nuclear weapons"
- ↑ "In Their Own Words: Iraq's 'Imminent' Threat"
- ↑ "Trump has 'every intention' of recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital"
- ↑ Amir Buhbut, "Sayeret Matkal is 50 years old"
- ↑ Saving Sergeant Netanyahu By Mitch Ginsburg, 25 October 2012, Times of Israel
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/747
- ↑ Likud Leaders, by Thomas G. Mitchell, (McFarland 2015), Chapter 10
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- ↑ “Is This Ship Sinking?” Inside the Collapse of the Campaign Against Netanyahu 20 March 2015, New Yorker
- ↑ "Can Binyamin Netanyahu win again?" 14 March 2015 | Jerusalem, The Economist
- ↑ "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wins Re-Election, Becomes Israel's Longest-Serving Prime Minister"
- ↑ "Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he arrives in London"
- ↑ "UK Government response"
- ↑ "Netanyahu arrest up for debate as UK petition hits target"
- ↑ "What happened when the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu came to town?"
- ↑ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-02/bibi-blasts-dont-celebrate-too-soon-israeli-police-begin-questioning-over-corruption?page=1
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-police/israeli-police-recommend-bribery-charges-against-netanyahu-idUSKCN1FX2JD