Can Netanyahu learn from Theodore Roosevelt and step aside to save Likud? - opinion

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Theodore Roosevelt stepped aside to keep his party in power. Netanyahu may face the same choice as Eisenkot seeks to form Israel's next government. Copy ...

Exactly 12 years ago, Avishay Braverman, then a Labor MK and chairman of the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee, claimed that Theodore Roosevelt, US president some 120 years ago, was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's “cultural hero.”The remarks were made during a discussion of the natural gas sector, the day after a meeting between the two. Braverman wanted to advance price controls in the absence of sufficient competition and invoked the American president who fought the “robber barons.”The message was clear: if Netanyahu admired Roosevelt, he should follow his example when confronting concentrations of economic power.

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