The Age of the Strongman: Understanding Netanyahu, with Anshel Pfeffer (Part Two)

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  Welcome to Intelligent Squared, where great minds meet.

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  I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.

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  For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our live event,

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  Understanding Netanyahu, with Gideon Rackman and Anchelle Pfeffer.

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  They joined us recently at Smith Square Hall in Westminster for the third event in our Age of the Strongman series,

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  in which Chief Foreign Affairs commentator for the Financial Times, Gideon Rackman,

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  speaks to leading experts about the political leaders defining our times.

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  For this installment of the series,

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  Gideon spoke to Anshell about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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  If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed.

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  Now it's time to rejoin the conversation live at Smith Square Hall.

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  Coming back to the present day,

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  a few more minutes before I ask for questions, and to the whole strongman theme.

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  I mean,

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  what was happening in Israel just before October 7th was the country was convulsed by protests about reforms that Netanyahu was trying to push through to the Supreme Court.

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  And there was an accusation that he was in classic strongman style undermining the country's democracy.

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  Where did those reforms stand and where does that argument stand?

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  Has it been kind of killed off by the fact that Israel's at war?

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  What's going on there?

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  Well,

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