Netanyahu Adviser: The prime minister has a Messianic notion of himself as a person called to save the Jewish people. He is scheduled to address Congressβ. This, in some respects, was a train wreck waiting to happen even from the beginning.
And then they penetrate very quick into the airplane. Passengers leaped from the plane while the Israelis dueled with the hijackers. But you know, minimal cost. There was nothing grander than being in Sayeret Matkal.
And Netanyahu truly admires America, the American culture, the American language, everything about America. He picked up flawless American English. When you have a conversation with Netanyahu, when he really gets engaged in it, he switches from Hebrew to English. And he considered it a great defeat and humiliation to have to leave the country and find his academic way in the United States.
EYAL ARAD: The outlook coming from his father is that there will always be a hostile world that would not care for the security and welfare of the Jewish nation, and one thing that we should do is do it ourselves. They might kill us. Israel is fragile. My role is to save this people, who are like childish.
And my role is to try to save them from their own mistakes and from these terribly demonic evil forces surrounding them. This is basically the Netanyahu gestalt. We shall wipe you out. Kill the Jews. Wipe out Israel. The victory was so profound and so sudden that it had a destabilizing effect. More than a million Arabs have been displaced. Homeless and helpless, they struggle to survive while the search for peace, lasting peace, goes on.
