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Bibi is proving his worth this time
By David Hazony
Created 9 Jul 2009 - 3:46pm
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During Israel’s intense 2009 election, Binyamin Netanyahu embarked on
a campaign to fix his reputation of being fickle and slippery.
His first term as PM had ended in failure, with his party routed in
1999, and Mr Netanyahu himself hurled into the political wilderness.
This time he was promising Israelis that he had changed.
“Strong on security, strong on the economy” was his blunt slogan.
This was, we were told, a new Bibi.
One hundred days into his second stint as premier, how is he doing?
The answer may surprise. He is, in fact, doing far better than anyone,
including his voters, imagined.
As a politician, Mr Netanyahu has been nothing short of masterful.
Although leader of the Knesset’s second-largest party, with the direct
support of fewer than a quarter of voters, he put together a stable
and broad coalition.
For the hawkish majority, his coalition embraces all but the most
extreme of pro-settlement parties, ensuring that he will not easily
cave on territorial concessions. For the dovish minority, Labour’s
prominent role promises a government dedicated to peace through
negotiations.
In the process, he has crushed his opposition. Through his alliance
with Labour, he has outflanked Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party on the left,
so Ms Livni cannot present herself as a significant alternative. She
has been forced to fend off insurrection from within her own party,
with at least seven of her 28 MKs pushing to join the coalition.
On the economic front, Israel’s economy is contracting but at a rate
far lower than those of major Western economies. While unemployment in
the US and Europe is on the rise, in Israel the jobless rate actually
fell in May.
Perhaps this is not all to Mr Netanyahu’s credit, but much of the
success stems from reforms he introduced as finance minister under
Ariel Sharon.
But his greatest success has been as a leader. In his June 14 speech
at Bar Ilan, Mr Netanyahu effectively rebutted Barack Obama’s Middle
East vision outlined in his Cairo speech. But he also managed to
articulate an Israeli consensus, hitherto unspoken, about peace,
history and the Jewish state’s approach to the world.
As polls taken after the speech show, the great majority of Israelis
support Mr Netanyahu’s vision. Israel is a Jewish state first, built
on a history of thousands of years of attachment to the land of
Israel; Israel seeks peace with its neighbours, and has no desire to
rule over the Palestinians; Israel will go to great lengths for peace,
but will not agree to a formula that undermines its security; and
Jerusalem will forever remain Israel’s unified capital.
In a single evening, it was as though decades of Israeli infighting
had suddenly melted away.
It is far too early to tell how Mr Netanyahu will meet the acute
challenges around the corner.
Settlement outposts will come down; will he remove them with the grace
of Mr Sharon or the violence of Mr Olmert? As Western economies
continue to sink, will he keep Israel afloat?
And what happens when he faces increasing pressure to prevent, by
force of arms, the nuclearisation of one the most oppressive, terror-
supporting regimes on earth?
Bibi has done sparklingly well so far, but his mettle has yet to be
tested.

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 Bibi is proving his worth this time
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