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How Bibi Buggered On to Victory

Summarizing Edward N. Luttwak in Tablet · Published Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Edward Luttwak's article draws a comparison between Winston Churchill's and Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership styles, highlighting their shared tenacity in the face of overwhelming odds. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Leadership  Biden Administration  Churchill  Hezbollah  U.S. Israel Relations  Netanyahu  Geopolitical Strategy  War And Peace  Tenacity 

Places mentioned

Israel
"Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long advertised his admiration for Churchill; the British leaders portrait hangs in his office."
United States
"Even then, with Britain desperate for U.S. support, the American national debate on interventionism, prompted by the outbreak of war in September 1939, continued to break decisively in favor of the isolationists."
United Kingdom
"Netanyahu has long advertised his admiration for Churchill; the British leaders portrait hangs in his office."
Paris, France
"from Samantha Power to Robert Malleythe red-diaper baby of Stalinist Jewish parents in Paris whom I met in my youth when they were working for Algerias National Liberation Front, which was not merely fanatically anti-Israel but also declaredly anti-Jewish, much like Yemens Houthis today."
Italy
"allowing Tehran to pile more pressure on Israel. The Houthis joined the fight with their skirts, sandals, and Iranian supplied anti-ship missiles and drones that not only deprived Israel of its secondary Red Sea sea port access but also targeted commercial vessels, blocking navigation in the area and forcing shopping companies to find longer."
Spain
"while Western disarray was compounded by the spectacle of very expensive European navies doing nothing much even as their Mediterranean ports lost all their Asian traffic."
Germany
"In June of that year, Germany appeared unstoppable. Paris and the entirety of Western Europe had fallen."
Russian Federation
"In June 1941, the German army smashed its way into Russia, advancing rapidly toward what looked like an imminent victory."
Algeria
"Robert Malleythe red-diaper baby of Stalinist Jewish parents in Paris whom I met in my youth when they were working for Algerias National Liberation Front, which was not merely fanatically anti-Israel but also declaredly anti-Jewish, much like Yemens Houthis today."
Yemen
"But its in his handling of Washington during his war that Netanyahu has earned the comparison with his role model."
Syria
"As a consequence of Hezbollahs demolition, Irans Syrian vassal, Bashar al-Assad, found himself defenseless, having long become dependent on Hezbollah and Iranian militias for manpower."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Meanwhile, at home, London was abuzz with talk of Churchills heavy drinking, his personal dependence on gifts from his Jewish friends to pay for his extravagant tastes and, above all, his utter lack of strategyhe had failed to offer any path at all that could conceivably lead to victory."

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