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Benjamin Netanyahu served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999. He was then Finance Minister from 2003 to 2005, and is currently serving as Prime Minister for the second time.
Economic and Diplomatic Strategies for Isolating Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Regime

Economic and Diplomatic Strategies for Isolating Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Regime

July 1, 2007 | Benjamin Netanyahu
In many ways, people are still fixated on a model of the Middle East that has now become obsolete. For the last quarter of a century we have been in the midst of a conflict with militant Islam, which seeks to assume power and deliver a corrective to the historical decline of Islam and the rise of the West. The first major victory was when the Iranian Ayatollah regime displaced the Shah in 1979.