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Feb 24, 2022, 6:05 PM

Bibi on the bomb was not the tough man he tried to portray

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations, revealing what he claimed to be a secret nuclear warehouse

“The rulers of Iran have said repeatedly that they will have an Islamic bomb and that its first target is Israel,” wrote Benjamin Netanyahu in a newspaper article called the “The greatest danger,” in which he argued that the greatest threat to Israel’s existence lay...

Feb 10, 2021, 6:08 PM

Amid fears about Biden’s Iran policy, the world is changing in Israel’s favour

Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Mrs. Sara Netanyahu. January 13, 2013. (Photo By Matty Stern/State Department/Sipa USA via Jewish News)

Lenin once observed that there are “decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” If the statement has become almost a cliché it nonetheless retains aphoristic value. The Twentieth Century closed out with a decade where, relatively speaking, nothing happened. On 9/11,...

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David Patrikarakos is a writer and the author of Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State and War in 140 Characters. He is at work on his third book.