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September 6, 2018

Like It or Not, Benjamin Netanyahu Is Right about Strength and Weakness

Military might defeated Nazism.

Speaking at a recent event honoring the late Shimon Peres, the Israeli prime minister declared that “the weak crumble, are slaughtered, and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive.” These comments quickly met with scorn, derision, and even outrage on social media—some of which came from respected journalists, professors, and retired statesmen. Seth Frantzman notes that the events of the past 100 years strongly support Netanyahu’s claim:

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