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As Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biographer, Charles Moore is something of a past master of fetishising power. Across three volumes, he obsessed over the woman behind the hairdo and the handbag. It comes as no surprise that he’s also a big fan of Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu.
When the Daily Telegraph – the newspaper Moore once edited – was seeking someone to big up the Israeli Prime Minister after the war on Iran, it turned to him.
Beneath the headline “Netanyahu – the leader who is hardest to beat”, Moore composed a paean to Bibi’s “genius”. In doing so, he congratulated himself on being brave enough to say it: “Such is the media and cultural atmosphere in Britain about the Middle East that one obvious thing remains all but unsayable. It is that Benjamin Netanyahu is perhaps the most remarkable leader the state of Israel has ever produced.”
The UK’s right-wing press has no problem lavishing praise on the Israeli Prime Minister, but Israel’s newspapers are far more critical of their country’s leader.
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