When leaders make speeches, people listen not only to the specific policies and positions but also to the vocabulary of ideas, which impacts public discourse and has the power to create a new way of thinking. An analysis of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speeches reveals an important philosophy of the meaning and mission of Israel and of Jewish destiny.
The prime minister often invokes Judaism and the millennia sweep of Jewish history rooted in the Bible as the context for the ideas and policies he presents to the world.
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