Benjamin Netanyahu: Why He’s a Secret Millennial
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Uriel Sinai/Getty images(WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday in what many analysts coined the “most important speech” of his life.
So naturally, Bibi brought along his millennial game to help make his case.
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei spews the oldest hatred, the oldest hatred of anti-Semitism with the newest technology,” Netanyahu said. “He tweets that Israel must be annihilated — he tweets.”
Indeed, Ayatollah Khamenei’s Twitter account did tweet out back in November a step-by-step guide to the elimination of Israel.
Why should & how can #Israel be eliminated? Ayatollah Khamenei’s answer to 9 key questions. #HandsOffAlAqsa pic.twitter.com/IVPOuNfMQH
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) November 9, 2014
But how can you find that tweet? Well, just take Netanyahu’s advice he offered to Congress later in his speech about how they might find details about the potential nuclear deal forming with Iran.
“You don’t need intelligence agencies and secret information to know this,” Netanyahu said. “You can Google it.”
Google and Twitter, the basic daily diet on the Web for any millennial.
But Netanyahu didn’t stop there.
“In this deadly Game of Thrones, there’s no place for America or for Israel, no peace for Christians, Jews or Muslims who don’t share the Islamist medieval creed, no rights for women, no freedom for anyone,” Netanyahu said as he argued that Iran and ISIS were “competing for the crown of militant Islam.”
And any fan of the HBO hit show might know that “when you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground,” as one character famously says.
As you might expect, that particular quote struck a chord on, where else, Twitter.
— darth™ (@darth) March 3, 2015
Game of Thrones reference from #Netanyahu and uh ok
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) March 3, 2015
I’m sorry, did Netanyahu just name-check Game of Thrones?
— Joanna Weiss (@JoannaWeiss) March 3, 2015
Those in Israel are already familiar with Netanyahu’s foray into appeasing to the younger generations. In early February he released a comedic campaign commercial in which he starred as the “Bibisitter.”
You can find that video on YouTube, which, as you might expect, Netanyahu also referenced once in his speech.
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