for what george soros has been able to do post world war ii, post holocaust. i have a real problem with george soros ideology and using his wealth to project that i do the world. george soros set up an open society foundation in hungary in the late 1980s, supporting young democrats including, at that time, viktor orban. but viktor orban s growing interest in an illiberal democracy increasing democracy increasingly clashed with soros vision of a liberal one. but soros, like george birnbaum and arthur finkelstein, wasjewish. identifying soros as an enemy from a country in which more than half a millionjews were deported and murdered in the second world war risked replacing the demons of the past with the demons of the present. the new threat, according to viktor orban, came from muslim immigrants, brought into europe,
jerusalem, i don t think so, but there were areas of the palestinian authority discussed as part of a peace deal. finkelstein and birnbaum taught benjamin netanyahu the art of reducing his campaign to a few simple slogans and then repeating them until enough people believe him. he fell from power in 1999, spent ten years in opposition before coming back, then remained israel s prime minister for the next 12 years. he finally lost in 2021, but bounced back last year for his sixth term as prime minister. mr netanyahu spoke of the need to reinvent yourself as the leader of the disenfranchised masses, face to face with a mythical elite. was that you and arthur finkelstein s idea, too? i will say this any country anywhere in the world were people feel disenfranchised, who feel like they are not
netanyahu and george birnbaum once said that viktor orban and benjamin netanyahu were their best pupils. he won in 2010 with a landslide, then he faced a problem, he had annhialated the opposition. you helped him find a new opponent, george soros. tell me about that. i have a problem with any leader in any country staying in power for too long. the other thing i have come to know the other thing i have come to know after all these years. i have a real problem with outside money influencing elections. whether it is a foreign national going into another countrx in the united states, you have a large donor in michigan putting money into a race in california. i have a real problem with money influencing elections from the outside. and george soros, although he is hungarian, i will say this, i am the son and grandson of holocaust survivors. george soros is a survivor. he has built an empire. i have enormous respect,
for you, we are going to give you a better tomorrow. that was ronald reagan s message, that was donald trump s message in his first election. benjamin netanyahu introduced the finkelstein birnbaum duo to hungarian politician viktor orban in 1998. then in opposition, orban and his party won the 2010 election and have stayed in power ever since, using the techniques they taught him. it is not just it is notjust a way of simplifying your own message, but identifying an enemy, one that the public is told they ought to fear. first a suitable candidate needs to be found, one that cannot fight back. george birnbaum once said that viktor orban and benjamin netanyahu were their best pupils. he won in 2010 with a landslide, then he faced a problem, he had annihilated the opposition. you helped him find a new opponent, george soros.
want peace at almost any cost, whereas the right side, we want security first, then peace. so part of the language we used was benjamin netanyahu. your piece, we took the language of the left and the rate of the left and the right and put them together, because back then, the other dividing line was people who identified first as a jew versus people who identified first as an israeli. they were very different in the way they acted and the way the voters. they acted and the way they voters. so we needed to make sure that the people who self identified asjews, tend to vote more right of centre than left of centre, turned out to vote, and we had to use the one which of both camps, the palace will dividejerusalem was really meant to drive out the voters right of centre, and identified as jews first. was it true? would he have divided jerusalem? it is hard to say. whether there would be a line down jerusalem, i don t think so, but things will be given to the palestinian authority as part of