"The story that Netanyahu has been telling himself for three decades is a Churchillian story. Because he is very ambitious, he is not content with the formidable role of Israeli prime minister, and he has cast himself in a much more spectacular one, as savior of the West. According to his world view, Iran is Nazi Germany of the 21st century, Israel is Great Britain of the 21st century, and he himself is the voice in the wilderness. Because Netanyahu’s brand of Zionism has always had at its center non-Jewish philo-Zionists—most of them British, most of them conservative, most of them imperialists—he feels a special kinship with the 19th-century-born leader who sensed the threat endangering the world in the 1930s and helped to save the world in the 1940s. During the second half of his adult life, Netanyahu has been acting like a Churchill wannabe. He thinks that Israel is too small a state for his world stature and Israelis are too small a people, and he has been engaged in a time-bending private dialogue with the man whose wisdom and courage and rhetorical prowess enabled him to vanquish the most dangerous antichrist of the modern era—Adolf Hitler."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/benjamin-netanyahu-winston-churchill-complex-115864.html?hp=t1_r#.VPxm3_mG81I
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