Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "(You have the brain of a dehydrated) Bibi" Netanyahu (1949–) is the pro-apartheid,[note 1] war criminal, Chairman of the Likud Party and current Prime Minister of Israel, having replaced (or ousted) the outgoing Ariel Sharon. If Sharon was Israel's Bush, Netanyahu was its Cheney. Nicknamed King Bibi, both by supporters and detractors, he is one of the most virulently hawkish Israeli national leaders in their history.[note 2] Back when he was still calling himself Ben Nitay and recently free from service in Sayeret Matkal, he was already intransigent, vowing at the age of 27 that Palestine would never have a state, one promise that he has kept his word on.[6] He has since, however, said that there would be conditions under which he'd accept a Palestinian state,[7] only to flipflop on that later for domestic political gain.