With Ariel Sharon out of the picture, Benjamin Netanyahu has a better chance to become prime minister of Israel.
He’s media savvy. He knows how to spin on American television. And he’s very dangerous.
Netanyahu spent a lot of his early years in the United States. Later, during the 1980s, he worked at the Israeli Embassy in Washington and then became Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. By the time he moved up to deputy foreign minister in 1988, he was a star on U.S. networks.
The guy is smooth — fluent in American idioms, telegenic to many eyes — and good at lying on camera…
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