It wasn't just politics that led to Netanyahu's ouster - it was fear of his demagoguery

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There is something Shakespearean about Benjamin Netanyahu’s downfall.

As in a scene from “Julius Caesar,” who was assassinated by Roman senators, Netanyahu was deposed by his former underlings, the leaders of the three right-wing parties that have joined the new government – Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Sa’ar, all of whom once worked for Netanyahu.

If two of these men had remained loyal to Netanyahu, as they had been for years, then he would still be in power today.

Instead, Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has finally been dethroned. “King Bibi,” as his devoted supporters hail him, ruled Israel for a total of 15 years, including a short stint in the 1990s. He returned to power in 2009, and for the past 12 years he dominated Israeli politics and came to personify Israel in the eyes of the world.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wasnt-just-politics-led-netanyahus-122629743.html

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1. Starting a war just to buttress his re-election chances should be all they needed to know

Someone like that, is capable of anything.

[Merlot]

2. And yet he didn't get credit for starting that war. It seemed pretty obvious what he was doing.

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5. +1

He - and his fellow Likudniks - haven't gotten the 'credit' the deserve for a lot of self-serving incidents.

Here's hoping they won't come back (probably too much to ask).

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3. Besides dispicably starting a war to try to stay in power, isn't he also corrupt as hell...

in and out of court for years crimes/bribes?

[madaboutharry]

4. I wonder how ashamed his brother would be.

His older brother, Yoni Netanyahu led the operation at Entebbe to rescue passengers and crew from a hijacking of an Air France airliner by terrorists.

There is always some “mythologizing” of heroes, but by all accounts his brother wasn’t a wannabe monarch.