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With experienced Mideast correspondent Matthew Kalman I discuss and read from our ebook PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail? Benjamin Netanyahu, the man often portrayed as an extremist, is really just locked in a deep psychological battle with the ghosts of his tough father and golden brother. The result: Bibi’s driven to succeed, so long as he can always get it wrong in the end. Confused? You won’t be. Not after you’ve met Psychobibi. Hard-hitting and irreverent, incisive and hardboiled, we eviscerate the myth behind the man everyone loves to hate.

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My partner in the new alternative journalism venture DeltaFourth is Matthew Kalman. In his regular Times of Israel column this week he posts an excerpt from our new ebook Psychobibi: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail? The excerpt is about Netanyahu’s compelling history with women, which tells us a lot about how he changed over time and became the man we’ve dubbed Psychobibi. Our aim in the ebook is to explain the self-destructiveness of the Israeli PM. Without giving it all away, it’s written as a psychological thriller — not your regular kind of journalism.

I’m interviewed on Israeli tv about my new ebook PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail?.

A great piece on Salon.com highlighting the relationship between the two Bs, Bibi and Barack cites my new ebook PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail?: “Netanyahu’s often clumsy outreach to the United States and his image, in Israel, as a complex figure with a dark and possibly unfathomable mind is the subject of a new book, PSYCHOBIBI.”

My new alternative publishing venture DeltaFourth was featured on Michael Patrick Shiels’ Michigan Big Show. Listen to the interview with me — about Barack Obama’s Israel visit, DeltaFourth, and the Israeli Prime Minister we call Psychobibi.

Like Barack Obama, who’s in Israel now for some chinwagging, I’ve met Bibi Netanyahu many times. Like Barack Obama, I know that there’s something almost unfathomably complex going on inside the man’s head. By the end of his trip to Israel, Barack Obama might be ready to write a book called PSYCHOBIBI. Unfortunately for him, I got there first.

In PSYCHOBIBI I write with Matthew Kalman about the psychological struggles behind the Israeli leader’s self-destructivenes. We get deep inside Bibi’s psyche by using telling moments from our many meetings with him over the years. Here’s an example that didn’t make it into the ebook: [...]

The new ebook from my alternative news venture DeltaFourth. It draws on many meetings with Bibi over a decade and a half, and comes to very unconventional conclusions. Read a free chapter.

PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail?

The shocking, hilarious, innovative new ebook from D4.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the man often portrayed as an extremist, is really just locked in a deep psychological battle with the ghosts of his tough father and golden brother. The result: Bibi’s driven to succeed, so long as he can always get it wrong in the end. Confused? You won’t be. Not after you’ve met Psychobibi. Hard-hitting and irreverent, incisive and hardboiled, D4 eviscerates the myth behind the man they love to hate.

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At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp outside the UN school where my fictional sleuth Omar Yussef teaches.

At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Dehaisha Refugee Camp and we’re talking about Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader.
 

At one of the Bethlehem locations from my first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) with a group of Norwegian visitors who posted some brief videos. This one is in Beit Jala, looking across the deep wadi at Jerusalem and talking about the gunbattles that used to take place there.