Bibi
Subtitle: the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
By: Anshel Pfeffer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780465097821
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Prime ministers; Biography
Description: Presents a candid account of the prime minister's rise to power, focusing on his consolidation of Zionist fringe politics to gain a long-lasting foothold in Israeli government and examining his enduring influence on the region. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Netanyahu's Israel; title: 1. Frustrated lovers of Zion 1879-1948. An orator of the highest grace ; Propaganda, propaganda, and propaganda ; On the sidelines of history ; The end of the great Zionist dream; title: 2. Outsiders in the new State 1949-1976. Life within sharp borders ; A terrible dislocation ; American Ben, Israeli Bibi ; You have to kill Arabs ; I've reached my target ; Trying to save the state; title: 3. Breaking the elite 1976-1996. Stop the world! ; Why aren't you in uniform? ; Prime minister in ten years' time ; If he had a sense of humor, he'd be a 10 ; Prime minister? of course not ; A crime unprecedented in the history of democracy ; A political failure? ; Rabin is "not a traitor" ; Good for the Jews; title: 4. Israel's serial bungler 1996-2009. The bedrock of our existence ; Dragged to Wye ; They. Are. Afraid ; A concerned citizen ; My own media ; Threats are what work; title: 5. Stuck on top 2009-2018. A new pragmatic Bibi? ; Your father wrote history, you are making history ; The Arab voters are moving in droves ; A bad mistake of historic proportions ; Nothing will happen, because nothing happened; title: Epilogue: Netanyahu's Israel at seventy.