A Not-So-Subtle Message From Bibi Netanyahu
A stir is being triggered by a photograph of the Israeli leader meeting with the envoy to the Jewish State from Communist China.
The import of the photograph just released by Prime Minister Netanyahu will be lost on no one. It shows the Israeli leader and Beijing’s ambassador savoring a new book by China’s party boss, Xi Jinping. Mr. Netanyahu, under attack by the White House and its allies in the press, clearly released the photo as a signal to President Biden, who is campaigning against Mr. Netanyahu’s reforms in Israel as a step toward anti-democratic tyranny.
Nor is this the first time that Mr. Netanyahu has used a well-placed photograph to make his point. In 2012, our future publisher, Dovid Efune, wrote about Mr. Netanyahu’s signaling as he set out for America amid tension over President Obama’s wooing of Iran. Mr. Netanyahu had posted to his Facebook page a photo of him on his airplane, preparing, with an aide, his UN speech. Clearly visible on the table was Henry Kissinger’s latest book — “On China.”
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