Tel Aviv
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“Netanyahu is the great war leader of our age” declared a headline in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper on Monday.
The article, written by the prominent conservative journalist and Margaret Thatcher biographer Charles Moore, framed the Israeli prime minister as a Churchillian figure, whose decades‑long focus on Iran, alliance with President Donald Trump, and military successes against Hamas, Hezbollah and Tehran have fundamentally reshaped the Middle East.
The comparison likely delighted Israel’s longest-serving leader, whose supporters rapidly shared the article on social media. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to see himself as the modern-day incarnation of…