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Bibi’s Big Chance
Is Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s once and future Prime Minister?
As long as Benjamin Netanyahu has been in politics, there have been political opponents, critics, and even allies willing to predict his imminent defeat and ultimate exile from public life.
It seems the end of the political career of Benjamin Netanyahu has been predicted almost as many times as there have been disagreements in the Knesset, and often for the same reasons.
What oddsmakers betting against him often forget is that Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu was an elite soldier long before he entered the hard-scrabble arena of politics. He is nothing if not a survivor.
Most public servants, elected officials and politicians are in the business they have chosen because they want to make a positive difference in the world. For some, love of community, love of country, altruism- together with a penchant for glad-handing and at least some affinity for power- informs their actions.
These leaders operate under two fundamental beliefs: 1.) Something can be done; and, 2.) They are the someone to do it.
When others might give up, give in, take the loss, accept defeat and move on, they just keep coming. To give up would mean abandoning, not only work undone, but those two fundamental self beliefs as well.