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Benjamin Netanyahu: belief

12 Jul 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

“I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So I believe in that.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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Speaker
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
12 Jul 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…In large part, in most part, that’s the hope. Maybe I’m a dreamer. That’s been in many ways my policy up to now, that the best regulator is the market. The best regulator in economic activity is the market and the best regulator in political matters is the political market. That’s called elections. That’s what regulates. You have a lousy government and people make lousy decisions, well, you don’t need the wise men raised above the masses to decide what is good and what is bad. Let the masses decide. Let them vote every four years or whatever, and they throw you out. By the way, it happened to me. There’s life after political death. There’s actually political life. I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So I believe in that. I’m not sure that in economic matters, in the geometric growth of tech companies, that you’ll always have the little guy, the nimble mammal, that will come out and slay the dinosaurs or overcome the dinosaurs, which is essentially what you said. Yeah, I wouldn’t count out the little guy.…

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