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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

You have a lousy government, and people make lousy decisions. Well, you don't need the wise men raised above the masses to decide what is good and what is bad. Let the masses decide. Let them vote every four years or whatever, and they throw you up. By the way, it happened to me. There's life after political death. It was actually political.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So, you know, I believe in that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that in economic matters, in the geometric growth of tech companies, that you'll always have the little guy, the nimble mammal that will come out and slay the dinosaurs or overcome the dinosaurs. which is essentially what you said.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So, you know, I believe in that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that in economic matters, in the geometric growth of tech companies, that you'll always have the little guy, the nimble mammal that will come out and slay the dinosaurs or overcome the dinosaurs. which is essentially what you said.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So, you know, I believe in that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that in economic matters, in the geometric growth of tech companies, that you'll always have the little guy, the nimble mammal that will come out and slay the dinosaurs or overcome the dinosaurs. which is essentially what you said.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

You wouldn't count out the little guy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

You wouldn't count out the little guy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

You wouldn't count out the little guy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Not at all. Because I think that, again, the thing that drives me is not is nothing but the mission that I took to assure the survival and thriving of the state, the Jewish state. That is its economic prosperity, but its security and its ability to achieve peace with our neighbors. And I'm committed to it. I think there are many things that have been done.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Not at all. Because I think that, again, the thing that drives me is not is nothing but the mission that I took to assure the survival and thriving of the state, the Jewish state. That is its economic prosperity, but its security and its ability to achieve peace with our neighbors. And I'm committed to it. I think there are many things that have been done.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Not at all. Because I think that, again, the thing that drives me is not is nothing but the mission that I took to assure the survival and thriving of the state, the Jewish state. That is its economic prosperity, but its security and its ability to achieve peace with our neighbors. And I'm committed to it. I think there are many things that have been done.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

A few big things that I can still do, but it doesn't only depend on my sense of mission. It depends on the market, as we say. It depends really on the will of the Israeli voters. And the Israeli voters have decided to vote for me again and again, even though I wield no power in the press, no power in many quarters here, and so on. Nothing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

A few big things that I can still do, but it doesn't only depend on my sense of mission. It depends on the market, as we say. It depends really on the will of the Israeli voters. And the Israeli voters have decided to vote for me again and again, even though I wield no power in the press, no power in many quarters here, and so on. Nothing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

A few big things that I can still do, but it doesn't only depend on my sense of mission. It depends on the market, as we say. It depends really on the will of the Israeli voters. And the Israeli voters have decided to vote for me again and again, even though I wield no power in the press, no power in many quarters here, and so on. Nothing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I mean, I am probably, I'm going to be very soon the longest serving president prime minister in the last half century in the Western democracies. But that's not because I amass great political power in any of the institutions. I remember I had a conversation with Silvio Berlusconi, who recently died, and he said to me about, I don't know, 15 years ago, something like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I mean, I am probably, I'm going to be very soon the longest serving president prime minister in the last half century in the Western democracies. But that's not because I amass great political power in any of the institutions. I remember I had a conversation with Silvio Berlusconi, who recently died, and he said to me about, I don't know, 15 years ago, something like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

I mean, I am probably, I'm going to be very soon the longest serving president prime minister in the last half century in the Western democracies. But that's not because I amass great political power in any of the institutions. I remember I had a conversation with Silvio Berlusconi, who recently died, and he said to me about, I don't know, 15 years ago, something like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

He said, so, Bibi, how many... how many of Israel's television stations do you have? And I said, none. He said, do you have none? I have two. Do you have? I said, none. I have two. He said, no, no, but what you mean? You don't have any that you control. I said, not only do I have none that I control, they're all against me. So he says, so how do you win elections?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

He said, so, Bibi, how many... how many of Israel's television stations do you have? And I said, none. He said, do you have none? I have two. Do you have? I said, none. I have two. He said, no, no, but what you mean? You don't have any that you control. I said, not only do I have none that I control, they're all against me. So he says, so how do you win elections?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

He said, so, Bibi, how many... how many of Israel's television stations do you have? And I said, none. He said, do you have none? I have two. Do you have? I said, none. I have two. He said, no, no, but what you mean? You don't have any that you control. I said, not only do I have none that I control, they're all against me. So he says, so how do you win elections?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

And, you know, with both hands tied behind your back. And I said, the hard way. That's why, you know, I have the largest party, but I don't have many more seats that I would have if I had a sympathetic voice in the media. And Israel is, until recently, was dominated completely by... one side of the political spectrum that often vilified me.