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Title: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: Spiraling Leopard on May 25, 2011, 06:06:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixYEZ9M_dU
Title: Re: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: angryChineseKahanist on May 25, 2011, 10:01:14 PM
What country is this the USA?
How come he speaks English?
Title: Re: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: Secularbeliever on May 26, 2011, 12:20:51 AM
Mr. Nitay?
Title: Re: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: briann on May 26, 2011, 01:24:35 AM
Impressive speaking and debating skills for a 28 year old.  He says several times there is 'no right for a Palestenian state to exist within Israel' 
Title: Re: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: muman613 on May 26, 2011, 02:58:07 AM
Mr. Nitay?

I was wondering about that... But here is some insight, possibly, into that question. From the wiki site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu

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After his army service Netanyahu returned to the United States, studied and earned a B.S. degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.S. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977, and studied political science at Harvard University. At that time he changed his name to Benjamin Ben Nitai (Nitai, a reference to both Mount Nitai and to the eponymous Jewish sage Nittai of Arbela, was a pen name often used by his father for articles).[9] Years later, in an interview with the media, Netanyahu clarified that he decided to do so to make it easier on his environment at the time, which was not fluent in Hebrew, so that they would be able to pronounce his name more easily. This fact has been used by his political rivals to accuse him indirectly of a lack of Israeli national identity and loyalty.[11]
Title: Re: Netanyahu 28 years old
Post by: muman613 on May 26, 2011, 03:01:18 AM
What country is this the USA?
How come he speaks English?


From the very same Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu

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Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv to Zila and professor Benzion Netanyahu, the middle child of three children. He was initially raised and educated in Jerusalem. Between 1956 and 1958, and again in 1963-67,[8] his family lived in the United States in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended and graduated from the Cheltenham High School and was active in a debate club. To this day, he speaks English with an American accent.[9] More precisely, he has still retained most of his Philadelphia accent.