Gareth O'Callaghan: Netanyahu’s actions will wipe out a generation of children
A demonstrator wearing a Benjamin Netanyahu mask and 'bloodied gloves' in Tel Aviv: The Israeli prime minister has presided over the slaughter of 13,450 children and alienated many of his own people. Picture: AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
HANGING on a wall in Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem is a portrait of Winston Churchill. Israel’s prime minister holds Britain’s Second World War leader in high esteem: Netanyahu likes to tell people that he is the Churchill of the Middle East.
Bibi, as Netanyahu is known to his friends and foes alike, regards himself as a present-day British Bulldog. How he sees similarity is a mystery.
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