Why Netanyahu’s makeover made him an improbable ‘Arab lover’

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, is once again fighting dirty against rivals in the hope of winning a decisive parliamentary majority to force through legislation to overturn his current corruption trial.

But something is dramatically different this time.

After six years of campaigns in which Netanyahu repeatedly characterised the votes of the country’s large Palestinian minority as a threat to Israel’s self-declared Jewish democracy — while attacking his political rivals as “Arab lovers” — he appears to have had a conversion worthy of St Paul on the road to Damascus.

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