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Ella Shohat, "Exile, Diaspora, and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse" published in Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context edited by Annelies Moors, Toine van Teeffelen, Sharif Kanaana, and Ilham Abu Ghazaleh (1995). Also collected in On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat (2017)
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Netanyahu's Eurocentric discourse (he often speaks of and in the name of the "civilized world," i.e., Israel and the West as opposed to the uncivilized Arab East) perfectly enacts the American professional manner with very little accent, presumably offering a reasonable outlook. Netanyahu represents precisely the dominant Israeli fantasy of Americanization, and reinforces the image of Israel as a Western outpost on an Eastern frontier.

— Ella Shohat

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Netanyahu's Eurocentric discourse (he often speaks of and in the name of the "civilized world," i.e., Israel and the West as opposed to the uncivilized Arab East) perfectly enacts the American professional manner with very little accent, presumably offering a reasonable outlook. Netanyahu represents precisely the dominant Israeli fantasy of Americanization, and reinforces the image of Israel as a Western outpost on an Eastern frontier." in the context of "Ella Shohat, "Exile, Diaspora, and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse" published in Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context edited by Annelies Moors, Toine van Teeffelen, Sharif Kanaana, and Ilham Abu Ghazaleh (1995). Also collected in On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat (2017)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

About Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949), often called "Bibi", is an Israeli politician who has served as the 9th prime minister of Israel since 29 December 2022 (he was previously in office from 31 March 2009 to 13 June 2021) and is chairman of the Israeli Likud Party.

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