New Internationalist

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

JOB: Five-term Prime Minister of Israel

REPUTATION: Corrupt rightwing populist with no use for ‘Arabs’

The 69-year-old ‘Bibi’ is the quintessential political survivor. He is also the quintessential symbol of everything wrong with Israel in the modern world. Whatever the flaws of its original conception, the country started out with a degree of humanistic Left vision of all that was best about cosmopolitan Jewish culture. Today, after four terms of Bibi’s leadership,

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