The Outsider

Benjamin Netanyahu’s complex histories. 
Benjamin Netanyahu
Photograph by Arnold Newman / Getty

If Paris is the City of Light, Jerusalem is the City of Opinion. Here it rains opinions. The desert blooms on the moisture of harangue. The rarest phrase in the fifty-year-long history of Israel is “No comment,” and certainly no one has ever uttered the following sentence: “I have no comment on Bibi.”

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