Bibi's Botched History Lesson
Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
Benjamin Netanyahu loves history. And he loves deriding his critics for not understanding it as well as he does. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, he attacked journalists for their weak grasp of past events, calling for a "press whose sense of history extends beyond breakfast."But while Netanyahu's sense of history may extend beyond breakfast, he doesn't remember events the way most historians do. Take his comments in this year's U.N. speech, delivered yesterday, about the cold war. In his argument for why the...
Benjamin Netanyahu loves history. And he loves deriding his critics for not understanding it as well as he does. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, he attacked journalists for their weak grasp of past events, calling for a "press whose sense of history extends beyond breakfast."But while Netanyahu's sense of history may extend beyond breakfast, he doesn't remember events the way most historians do. Take his comments in this year's U.N. speech, delivered yesterday, about the cold war. In his argument for why the...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/09/29/bibi039s_botched_history_lesson_291537.html