From the New York Times are Michael by Martin. This is the day today. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu pieces indictments over an alleged involving breeze and acts of bribery and fraud. So why are so many Israelis ready to re elect him? It's Wednesday, more choice of it. I think the only way people would vote for someone under indictment is if they can't live without em, if they think is indispensable. David healthier is the Jerusalem Bureau Chiefs for the times, and if you really want to understand how Benjamin Netanyahu developed this idea, that is the indispensable has really leader you gotta, go all the way back to the early ninetys nineties when he first arrived on the scene. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Arab generated by the Executive Council of past

Liberation Organization is actually see you redeem, Prime Minister of Israel, the President of the United States, when the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is getting going for the first time really ever. Prime Minister Rabin, Chairman Arafat, Foreign Minister, Paris, there's this breakthrough moment of the Oslo accords. Today we bear witness to an extraordinary act in one of histories, defining dramas and those accords, as we know provided for Israel to begin to start pulling out from the occupied territories in Gaza, the West Bank and the goal was. This will eventually lead to a palestinian state, where I remember watching this historic moment at the White House and

everyone who watch did and processed in the days and weeks later thought. This is truly a turning point in the history of them, at least Israel and the Palestinians. That's right, but Mitya who didn't see it that way to him as low was dangerous risk. A big mistake. The government is gone too far too fast, at most people say: hold it it's right at this time that Netanyahu emerges the israeli political seem taking over the look good party warning against. How unwise and foolhardy these Oslo accords would prove for Israelis,

gets into a really closely contested race in eighteen. Eighty six, we just days to go before the israeli elections campaign fever is sweeping the country Netanyahu whose against piracy is peace. Agreement for the Palestinians is selling his own vision of a secure future for Israel. And it took a split second and twenty two pounds of t intend to transform, attacked commuter, bus and Russia private pilots. Metal and blood. They attack the bloodiest in Israel. A nail. Twenty years came just three months before and has rightly general election. There were suicide bombings by Palestinians, leaving scores of Israelis dead. It is the was awful after the latest bombing. Israel's opposition leader urged Israelis to be restrained. Don't give up the trying to produce these drivers, they will bring an.

With the guy who had been warning against precisely this kind of thing. He goes to sleep one night, thinking that he has lost the race anyway, the next Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Baby Netanyahu, forty six thrice married father of three right wing politician and now israeli Prime Minister. Story of the jewish people. Is it the view David Netanyahu one precisely because of his scepticism about making peace with the Palestinians that he was giving Voice to something that may be many Israelis privately agreed with. I think that's right. I think that you know as much as people want to embrace optimism and hope and did then

think he figured out a way to tap into that visceral in oh gut level. Fear I mean violence does happen. Here is a very small country. It's the size of news, Busy, roughly in area and in population and it in fighting wars. As long as it's been around everybody here knows somebody who lost somebody here. Every time one of those buses blew up until it ever Jerusalem or a cafe exploded. Everybody knows somebody who didn't survive so with that kind of a populous with that kind of an audience. Netanyahu's message is very powerful and what happened as to the peace talks. Once Netanyahu is elected in ninety six. For four days, the world has wondered what will happen to the Middle EAST peace process. Now that the right wing is back in power, so he gets zoom and having made these warnings, he now is the leader of. State of Israel, which depends

finally, on the United States, whose administration under Bill Clinton was very much interested in pursuing peace, So where does that leave Netanyahu? He basically slow walks like agenda that we're gonna go getting earnestly, but I cannot at this time and predicted, and I hope that the other side chosen goodwill. We certainly have showed resists slow things down. He expressed reservations. I would be very careful when alternately, because Israel is so dependent on the United States. At that point, the position is to not only move on the peace process, but also improve prosperity. We think about the conditions of the palestinian population, He does get pressured into shaking Arafat's hand into striking a deal.

A brown, and I believe that we can advance to achieve both goals for the benefit of both peoples and, ultimately those concessions which inflame his own base, the right wing of Israel against him and when it comes time for get reelected in itinerary? I beg you to elections Israel is disappointed with the now a lot of them dessert him and he goes down even if only I lost the elections and his own coalition actually turned against him, he's bound set of office and he sent into the wilderness its like it could be the end of his political life, so Netanyahu having run on a campaign of scepticism about the peace process, is kind of long armed into engaging in it in

a small way and experiences a huge blow back that cost him politically. What is the lesson for him? The lesson is me: you don't get anywhere by participating in the process. You don't believe him. I think that's the lesson that he carries with them to stay. So what happens? Next? They objective now is to put the peace process back on all its tracks. Israel tries again for peace talks under President Clinton with a hood barrack. A strong israeli american relationship must be the cornerstone on which to build a peaceful Middle EAST. Mr President, the road ahead may be long and arduous, but together without peace, We can and will make it happen. There's this store deal on the table in two thousand, but the talks collapse Google,

we had received five casualties solve on. One of these is the younger software, multiple burns, which lays down a mechanical ventilation, expensive tests. We have long invasion way concerns and we have three other patients way Only an hour later and later that year, the Palestinians resume their terror attacks against Israel. Aqaba myself in a narrow night traveled side, strange and working class area of west. Secondly, defrauded more deaths and suffering onto the streets. Inevitably, hatred How does one stages and in black plastic bags, and that's really three year of carnage inside Israel. The explosion read through the a fast growing bodies and wreckage across the road, volume is probably carried out to yet another act in Nevada. Take the cat killings with overwhelming people's, not if it's so long,

the Israelis ultimately to build the barrier wall separating Israel from much of the West Bank. Time Netanyahu is watching sort of once again seeing his philosophy, his beliefs about the Palestinians and the prospects for peace essentially being vindicated. When I left office, I have time so I went around the world. I saw what everybody was doing. When I was offer this opportunity, I said okay, so he returns the scene as the finance Minister but I need to run the economic cabinet because it gives me the ability to actually make the decisions. You know it's a kind of a thankless job. You think this is the

It has to raise taxes, but actually Netanyahu comes into the finance ministry. We cut spending, he cuts, taxes cut Wilfer, he cuts the blow Bureaucracy took over the pension funds of the union's, which were natural bankruptcy. Privatized industries raise their retirement. Which men and women, and he really lay the groundwork. For what would be widely praised across the spectrum here as an economic miracle, Fraser The economy last quarter, who five point: five percent stock market has more than doubled, grown a hundred percent and twelve months. The money is flowing, investment is coming in. Israel is a very, very good deal. You develop this new kind of gravitas. And regains the leadership of the right wing party. The could this ceremony Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu, took over as Prime Minister of the Middle eastern nation and in two thousand and nine is able to win the job and he was an Ex prime minister,

And even what does Netanyahu do once he's back and power? As prime minister? I have to imagine that, given here vindication from the nineties, with the peace process and once again in the mid two thousands he's kind of hardened in this unwillingness to engage in negotiations with the Palestinians. Yeah, I mean it's in this time. Any really kind of masters the art of his form of politics is at stake, is not merely the future. My country at stake is the future of the world and nothing could imperil our common future, more than the arming of IRAN with nuclear weapons. He's got this incredible ability to stir the fears of Israelis, their basic existential fears to understand what the world would be like with a nuclear armed IRAN. Just imagine the world with a nuclear armed, ok, he's masterly and

management of the israeli economy. Israel is the fastest growing one of the most dynamic entrepreneurial and innovation based economies on the planet that any starts getting reelected again and again, with relative ease and its election day in Israel, and it appears Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, we'll get another term in office it's also in this period that Netanyahu really cement the idea that he is truly indispensable to Israel. My friends, I have come here to do because, as Prime Minister of Israel, I feel a profound.

Obligations to speak to you about an issue that could well threaten the survival of my country and the future of my people be picked a fight with your bomber menstruation over the IRAN Nuclear Deal, it doesnt blocking runs path through the bomb. It paves IRAN's path through the bomb. So why would anyone make this deal? He goes so far as to go to Congress and a challenge of Burma. Publicly, we ve been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well, this is a bad deal. It's a very bad. We're better off without it and ultimately what happens he wins. You know. Obama leaves office my number The priority is to dismantle the disease this deal with ran trump comes in Trump, basically echoes everything that Netanyahu has been saying in just a short period.

Time. The world's leading states, sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world's most dangerous weapons and learn. Whole. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the IRAN's nuclear deal, the United States exit from the nuclear deal and twenty six Donald Trump promised at his convention speech? I alone can fix it only I can fix it. A year later, Netanyahu can say to his rallies only I could have pull this off only I could have stood up to an american president on his signature issue and been Vince it'd. You know, because I know the American so well, they get me only. I could have done it in various again, the indispensable man

and when Netanyahu says that it feels true right yeah. I have to say yes earlier this year, now put these giant billboards up for his campaign, showing him alongside Trump in other, like six or eight stories high to them, and I think, when many Israelis think about what he accomplished pushing back against IRAN deal. I think you know is that large in their minds, no prime minister could have done that accept baby Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Baby Netanyahu he's held the posed for nine years, but now his political future seems at best Certain investigator say this now sufficient evidence to charge Netanyahu for bribery fraud in breach of public trust. The next step now will be for the attorney general here to either reject or accept the police recommendation calling for an indictment.

Huge breaking news out of Israel. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to be indicted, All this sounds like the story of a prime minister who is experiencing tremendous success and who is? delivering. Very well on this message of inducements ability that that the centre of his political life. So what exactly goes wrong? I think, Hindsight somewhere along the way, as he is growing in stature like really fast and really big in the eyes of his people and the eyes of the rest of the world.

You know he starts to believe exactly how indispensable he is trying to convince Israelis. He is starts to really identify himself with Israel and that's not just taking personally what happens the Israel? That's thinking that you know what's good, for you is good for the country and there's an arrogance to that as well. But, six weeks now, it's really have been demonstrating against the Prime Minister Crime Minister, as they ve affectionately, nicknamed him in others to things that start to get him into trouble according to what we ve been learning in recent months. For one thing, he develops a taste for the trappings of power. There's the sense that he and members of his family. They feel that somebody who is as exalted Ali on the world stage should be treated accordingly. There's a steady stream of gifts that he's accused of accept

from billion errors in Hollywood mobiles, who his friends with and so on, luxurious champagne. For the lady and fine cigars for the gentleman oh there's like jewelry arriving in the Prime minister's residence for his life. There's tens of thousands of dollars worth of cigars, their champagne and then case number two nets in here. Reportedly struck a deal with the major newspaper way in return for more favourable coverage. He would weaken arrival newspaper use. The second thing is, if you're, the indispensable man- but you see impediments to your continuing lead and those impediments might be in the form of a critical fractious news media, Well, how do you get around that? Maybe want to ban the news media to your will and you'll look for ways to do that? How did that work exactly so? There are just countless examples of this, but one that really stands out for me

goes back to election day, the last time and twenty fifteen he put up a video on election day itself, she's gonna, an imbecile let's be my, we might become a note at the old look country where he speaks to camera and says you gotta, come out to the small revealed the bill to boost the Arabs, are being passed to the polls in droves, either not allowed to advertise and the number of days of an israeli election, but while a news, this news website, over which net- who is wielding enormous influence in control. While a news is prevailed upon to run this facebook video on its homepage prominently all day long while and who knows how many people saw that got right out and vote it. So no other candidates can advertise at this point, but this the kind of serves as a kind of advertisement for Netanyahu through a media organisation that he's got this essentially bribery arrangement with the train

the allegation, and what do we know about how this was coordinated by Netanyahu or people around him? So much of this has been reported because the prosecutors have turned state witnesses out of some of India, whose closest AIDS in his media advisor his deputy in the communications ministry. I mean the guy who is running back and forth, allegedly between the family and the newsrooms. In other conversations with a prime minister's wiretap talking to some of these guys, there's just a pavia massive trove of evidence that we're not gonna see until after the election, but I think you know from the way it unreported up to now, it's gonna be pretty damning. Didn't how do you think about these two things existing side by side these extremely damning allegations of corruption, bribery fraud and, in his really

Electorate that may very well still be poised to re, elect the man who allegedly committed those acts. So I think that is really is are just having a very difficult time, imagining the next thing. Let me I have been in office for ten years, he's done really well by the average Israeli Yahoo Himself- has become this huge towering figure, That means there is nobody else on the scene. We know the man housing, endless former army chief, he's, got lots of stature, he's very tall, but Netanyahu's image just dwarfs the guy and so

Israel is no matter, I mean they take these charges seriously, but it is very, very hard for them to think about anybody else in that job and that really for many people, I think when they go into the ballot box, it's gonna be hard for them to get past. That that idea up against Netanyahu is this new party is led by a bunch of generals, were promising, is rarely voters that they know how to keep them safe.

That their security is in good hands, but Netanyahu is telling people. I know you. I know your fears, trust your fears and you can only trust me to keep you safe and it seems to be working its work for him so many times and it just might one more David. Thank you very much Michael spread to be with you. Cooling shows that the israeli elections scheduled for April night remains extremely close in the deep leading up to the election,

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