Bibi Netanyahu’s Greatest Gamble

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Just about the only thing that the administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump have agreed on is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was too timid to pull the trigger. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” a senior Obama official told The Atlantic ’s Jeffrey Goldberg in 2014, explaining that the Israeli leader was “scared to launch wars.” Nine years later, Trump would tell attendees at a campaign rally that Netanyahu had initially committed to join America’s 2020 strike

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