Ashley Perry on Why You Never Bet against Netanyahu

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MEF speech-to-text, word-timed; edited only to withhold private names and to correct misheard public names, in square brackets. Timecodes are source time; each opens the source at that second.

1. 25:07I have one rule in Israeli politics: You never get...
2. 25:09uh, be- bet against Bibi. Um, he has pulled off, um, I'm not sure far
3. 25:17worse situations like this. This is definitely the fight of his political life, but
4. 25:21he is a consummate politician. He's a very good campaigner.
5. 25:25And as we're seeing now, at the crucial time, less than one, one month before the
6. 25:30election, he is once again able to control the agenda.
7. 25:33There was a time only a couple of weeks ago where he was flailing a little bit, but
8. 25:37now he's been able to reclaim and retake it.
9. 25:41Um, so certainly he's in a better place. Will he win the election?
10. 25:45I doubt it. Will he lose it? That remains to be seen.

Views expressed are the speaker's own.