Benjamin Netanyahu | Early Years (Part 2)

Part two of my Benjamin Netanyahu documentary series focused on his early career. This looks at his time as opposition leader, his first term as prime minister, and his time as foreign/finance minister in Ariel Sharon’s cabinet. Netanyahu comes into power at a really important time in the peace process, following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and the loss of Shimon Peres. He has a large influence over how it proceeds, and given his and Likud’s opposition to the Oslo Accords, it makes sense to have a close look at this period. Also, a lot of the policy moves to which people point in order to demonstrate Netanyahu’s willingness to compromise and commitment to peace happen in this period.

Once again, I will look at figures like Yasser Arafat in their own dedicated videos. This video is focused on Netanyahu, and just because he is the only person I am focused on doesn’t mean other people don’t play an important role.

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references

Benn, A. (2016) The End of the Old Israel: How Netanyahu Has Tansformed the Nation. Foreign Aff., 95, p.16.

Ben-Eliezer, U. (2012) Internal Struggle around the Oslo Agreements. In Old Conflict, New War: Israel’s Politics toward the Palestinians (pp. 29-51). New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.

Freedman, R. (2020) Israel Under Netanyahu: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Hazan, Eli V. (2020) Balagan Podcast Series on Netanyahu

Hodgkins, A (2019) Israel in the Age of Netanyahu (Expert in Israel Palestine, has worked as an academic in Egypt, Jordan, and Israel)

Lochery, N. (1999) Netanyahu Deciphered!. Middle East Quarterly.

Lochery, N. (2000) The Netanyahu era: From crisis to crisis, 1996–99. Israel Affairs, 6(3-4), pp.221-237.

Lustick, I.S. (1997) Ending protracted conflicts: The Oslo peace process between political partnership and legality. Cornell Int'l LJ, 30, p.741.

Netanyahu, B. (2022) Bibi: My Story.

Newman, D. (1999) Along the Difficult Road of Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Wye Agreement and Early Elections. Boundary and Security Bulletin, 6, pp.62-72.

Peleg, I. (2019) The Likud under Benjamin Netanyahu: Readjusting revisionism to the 21st century. In Israel Under Netanyahu (pp. 11-32). Routledge.

Pfeffer, A. (2018) Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Said, E.W. (1997) The real meaning of the Hebron agreement. Journal of Palestine Studies, 26(3), pp.31-36.

Samsonov, G. (2020) Netanyahu and Likud’s Leaders: The Israeli Princes.

Salt, J., 1998. Beyond the pale in Hebron. Arena Journal, (12), pp.7-12.

Shahbari, I., 2021. Israel Takes Stock: The Legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu. Political Insight, 12(3), pp.34-36.

Slater, J. (1997) Opinion: Netanyahu, A Palestinian State, and Israeli Security Reassessed. Political Science Quarterly, 112(4), pp.675-689.

Weiner, J.R. (1997) The Hebron Protocol: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning for the End of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process. BU Int'l LJ, 15, p.373.

footage

Most footage is sourced from Associated Press (it takes me a really long time to find), some footage from King Bibi, and some footage from PBS documentary on Netanyahu.

other things

I did the subtitles myself so they may not be perfect, im still learning

There were so many things I didn’t have time to cover in this video: netanyahu’s relationship with the media, the bribery charges brought against him in 1996, the complicated relationship with Jordan following the attempted assassination of Khaled Mishal, his cheating scandal, the years in between being prime minister and being finance minister (not that interesting) AND MORE. I already cut about an hour off this video, so I just can’t cover everything.

- I know there is a bit of the screen missing for the first 15 mins or so. I filmed for close to an hour before I realised and I just….couldn’t refilm. Forgive me. I am trying my best.