Israel's right-wing veteran Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as the country's prime minister longer than anyone else, has described protecting the Jewish state from its enemies as his 'life's mission'.
Israel's right-wing veteran Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as the country's prime minister longer than anyone else, has described protecting the Jewish state from its enemies as his "life's mission".
His critics and allies alike concede that the gravel-voiced security hawk is a tireless campaigner in pursuit of an office — the Israeli premiership — which he believes he is uniquely qualified to hold. Netanyahu “will try to do whatever he can to form a coalition, no matter how crazy”, Netanyahu’s former spokesman and Likud insider Aviv Bushinsky told AFP before the vote.Netanyahu is the son of a historian who was active in right-wing Zionist groups, an ideological inheritance that helped shape his political career.
Countering Israel’s arch-foe Iran — including its alleged nuclear weapons programme and allied groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah — has been the centrepiece of his foreign policy. Netanyahu became Likud’s leader in 1993 and led the party to victory as Israel’s youngest-ever prime minister in 1996, aged 46.Despite his advancing age, ongoing trial and past electoral misadventures, there has been little doubt about Netanyahu’s thirst to reclaim power.
“As a diplomat, I fended off attacks against its legitimacy in world forums, as finance minister and prime minister I sought to multiply its economic and political power among the nations,” he went on, concluding that he had “helped secure the future of my ancient people”.
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