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 Was Binyamin Netanyahu ‘Born Pregnant’?

Is the Prime Minister's political career his own, or was he irreversibly committed to an American-led script from the very beginning?

“It was felt that if one planeload of arms could be introduced through Zambia, with Kaunda’s permission, he would be irreversibly committed,” Stockwell explained. The agency had a term for this state of strategic entrapment. “‘Pregnant’ we said in CIA headquarters.”

The jargon is cold, a product of a bureaucratic culture that, as some critics have noted, views moral compromise as a tactical tool. To be “born pregnant” is to be irreversibly complicit, your future actions dictated by a past event you cannot afford to have exposed.

This American modus operandi provides a stark, unsettling lens through which to re-examine the career of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. For decades, Netanyahu has defined Israeli politics, building a global brand as the ultimate Jewish nationalist, a fierce defender of Israeli sovereignty, and the only leader capable of saying “no” to Washington.

But this public persona has always coexisted with a starkly contradictory record: a history of stunning political capitulations, land concessions that violated his own “red lines,” and a pattern of acquiescence to American demands, often at moments of his greatest political strength. This chasm between rhetoric and action has fueled a persistent, unsettling question, one that his critics have asked from the very beginning: Is Binyamin Netanyahu an English-speaking Israeli, or is he, in terms of his loyalties and practical actions, a Hebrew-speaking American?

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Acquiescence Again: Netanyahu, the ‘Revitalized’ PA, and the Betrayal of Judea and Samaria

As Washington advances its 'revitalized PA' plan, Netanyahu's avoidance signals a familiar capitulation—and a new security betrayal in Judea and Samaria

In the theater of Israeli politics, the script is agonizingly familiar. While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offers tedious declarations of “total victory,” American officials, speaking to Ynet, detail a completely different plan. The U.S. is actively “pressing” Netanyahu on his “day after” plan, a plan Washington has already drafted: a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority must take control of Gaza.

The American “frustration,” as the report terms it, is not that Netanyahu is fighting them on this. It is that he is “avoiding discussions” entirely. U.S. officials say they worry Israel is “sleepwalking” into an “untenable occupation.”

But as our previous analysis, Was Binyamin Netanyahu ‘Born Pregnant’? established, this behavior is not “sleepwalking.” It is the classic signature of an “irreversibly committed” leader. It is the Wye River Memorandum playbook. Netanyahu is not defying the U.S. plan; he is enabling it by “avoiding” a confrontation. He is stalling until the moment of capitulation arrives, at which point he will face the Israeli public, shrug, and deploy his infamous justification: “We had no choice.”

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