There's been this idea that something is going to happen or accumulation of things are going to make the situation unsustainable. Ira Sharon called it, Israel will be led into the chorales where the bull in Spain is slaughtered. The now has always said the opposite. You're so wound up by this fear that you're making concessions that we don't need to make. It's not going to happen. 31 years since the occupation began, Israel is still there. Netanyahu seems to be winning the argument. He won it for the entire eight years of Barack Obama. And this saved him from having to do anything about the Palestinian issue.
This week's Intelligence Squared podcast features Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz journalist and author of Bibi - The Turbulent Life And Times Of Benjamin Netanyahu in conversation with Catherine Philp, diplomatic correspondent on The Times. In this in-depth podcast on the leadership and story of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they discuss the state of modern Israel and the future of the Middle East.
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