The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Benjamin Netanyahu reads as The Strategist because Israel's longest-serving prime minister governs through analytical control rather than charismatic improvisation. He maps the regional threat landscape and concentrates military, intelligence, and diplomatic instruments around a single national security logic.
“And he then stood alone against the raging mob to slow it down. They beat him senseless. They left him for dead. Before he passed out, covered in his own blood, he said to himself: “What a disgrace! What a disgrace!”
“If any representatives were to land at Tel Aviv airport — as many have in the past — their planes could be endangered by the inability of Israel, in a permanent peace settlement, to control the importation of these lethal weapons.”
“I went to Asia, where we deepened our relations with China and Singapore, and expanded our cooperation with our Muslim friends in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. I went to Europe, where, in London and Paris, Thessaloniki and Budapest we enhanced our security and economic ties.”
“Today, 31 years after I stood here for the first time, I am still asking when the United Nations will finally check its anti-Israel fanaticism at the door, when the United Nations will finally stop slandering Israel as a threat to peace and when it will actually start helping Israel advance peace.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
LISTEN AT THE SOURCE ↗THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE