Benjamin Netanyahu

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 17, 2021 and January 30, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the market-friendly government of Benjamin Netanyahu”; “And nobody clings to power more ferociously than Benjamin Netanyahu”. It most often appears alongside Trump, Ukraine, 1/6 insurrection.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 17, 2021
  • Last seen: January 30, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

September 17, 2021 · Original source
The protesters' message was savagely critical of the market-friendly government of Benjamin Netanyahu, and blandly admiring of themselves: words like "awakening", "renewal", and "rebirth" were thrown around by them, in an effort to describe the transcendental change they had brought about. They were not alone in applauding their actions. Opinion surveys showed remarkable levels of public support for the protests - up to 88% in one poll [...]
January 30, 2024 · Original source
Both 15% and 32% are low numbers, but Israelis in the comments bring up that there aren’t scheduled elections in 2024. So if Bibi didn’t resign and his coalition partners didn’t desert him, he could potentially cling on. And nobody clings to power more ferociously than Benjamin Netanyahu.
I haven’t been following the Trump Legal Issues Cinematic Universe, so I was surprised to see “Trump won’t go to jail” climbing so consistently. Maybe this is just because he has a higher chance of becoming President before the trials are over? I was surprised to see this one; I’d previously seen that only 15% of Israelis wanted him to stay after the war was over. But he’s now up to 32%. Why? He doesn’t seem to be handling the war very well. I think the difference might just be that the first poll asked if he was good, and the second poll asked if there was anyone else better.