Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Israeli prime minister, first came to power 29 May 1996 election [sitting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 04 November 1995 by Yigal Amir, an Israeli extremist Jew] Netanyahu's almost 17 year cumulative tenure is longer than that of anyone else who has led Israel, a country only two years older than he is, governing what is widely regarded as the most right-wing government in Israel's history and a polarizing figure on the world stage "who has led Israel to the terrible place they are now in” -- Global pariah on the world stage
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Extracts: Friends of Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu, who was killed 48 years ago today during the famous codenamed Operation Thunderbolt, posthumously renamed Mivtsa Yonatan (Operation Yonatan) to rescue Israeli hostages when an Air France plane en route Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris was hijacked just after it took off from Athens, by Palestinian terrorists, to Uganda, hold a memorial ceremony at his grave — without his younger brother, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
“You chose to sacrifice your life for Israel and the hostages — and they sacrifice Israel and the hostages for themselves, Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Shlomi Reisman adds
“If Yoni were alive, he would be prime minister and not his brother, who has led us to the terrible place we’re now in” Udi Shalvi, one of the late Netanyahu’s subordinates in the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit, tells Channel 12 News
Extracts: If Yoni Netanyahu died too young, Bibi Netanyahu seems never to die at all
There was Netanyahu: young, handsome, heroic. And tragically, the only Israeli soldier to die in operation Thunderbolt And then there was his brother Benjamin
Yoni was Joe Kennedy Jr.; Bibi was Jack. Yoni was Sonny Corleone; Bibi was Michael.
