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Let's say Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister in 1977 instead of Menachem Begin. Would he have gone the same way? Made a peace agreement with Egypt via Camp David? Renounced all the Pithat Rafiah settlements? Withdrawn to the last millimeter in Sinai? Signed an agreement affirming the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people?
Would he have uprooted all our settlements beyond the border in a violent confrontation with the Greater Land of Israel people? Would he have responded to President Carter's dictates and submitted his concessions, mainly removing the settlements, to the Knesset and supported peace with a state that killed some 3,000 of our soldiers in the Yom Kippur War?
The answer, of course, is no. The very thought of such a possibility would have made Bibi sweat by day and suffer horrible nightmares by night.