What is Bibi's political and security record worth?

- In 1993, Netanyahu published a column in Yedioth Ahronoth (then Noni was fine) in which he predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999 and claimed that this was the greatest threat to us.

- In July 1996, the new Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a special session of the US Congress. He warned of an Iranian bomb and said that the Iranian regime was approaching this goal with alarming speed.

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- In September 2002, 'concerned citizen' Netanyahu appeared in Congress again. He encouraged members of Congress to go to war in Iraq, saying that there was no doubt, "no doubt," that Saddam was getting closer to an atomic bomb and that his nuclear program was so advanced that he had centrifuges the size of "washing machines" scattered throughout the country (Saddam had no nuclear program).

Netanyahu claimed that Saddam also had biological and chemical weapons (he did not), warned that the moment the US attacked, Saddam would launch these weapons at Israel (he also repeated this warning in a secret letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon), and most interestingly – predicted that the overthrow of Saddam would have a particularly positive effect on the entire region, perhaps even leading to the overthrow of regimes in Iran and Libya.

- In November 2013, Netanyahu claimed that the interim agreement between the powers and Iran was the "deal of the century" for the mullahs' regime and predicted that the sanctions regime would collapse (Israel also admits that this did not happen) and that the Iranians would not uphold the agreement (they did).

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There is nothing the Prime Minister loves to talk about more than the tune that he predicted the dark future, in real time everyone was mocking him and once again it turned out that the historian's son was right.

I said about the Oslo Accords that they would lead to the shooting of Ashkelon, you laughed at me. Examining Netanyahu's record reveals that he simply warns about a lot of things in almost every area. In an environment like the Middle East, especially when you've been the prime minister for 9 of the last 19 years, there's a chance that you'll get hurt, but usually Netanyahu simply forgets the warnings that didn't come true.

- In November 2004, after Yasser Arafat was hospitalized, Netanyahu predicted in a conversation with journalists that his successor would not come from among the recognized Palestinian leaders.

- At the end of 2004, Netanyahu predicted that if the disengagement from Gaza was carried out without a referendum, the result would be "civil war.".

- In October 2011, still under the influence of social protest, Netanyahu told reporters: "The global economy will enter twenty years of recession. This will affect all of us, without exception. We are heading for a huge, huge crisis! This is not Netanyahu's spin, write it off as Netanyahu's spin, the whole world will be talking about it in a few months. We are heading for a very serious social problem because of the contraction of global markets.".

- Netanyahu, as I recall, negotiated with Hafez Assad about withdrawing from the Golan Heights. In a conversation with me as opposition chairman, when Bashar was already in power, he said that if he were in power, he would have opened negotiations with him.

Netanyahu's political-security message is based, so to speak, on his real-time warnings, which in our short-sightedness we did not heed. Those warnings boil down to the following overwhelming argument – ​​every inch we evacuated, whether in southern Lebanon or Gaza, was filled with Iranian representatives. The conclusion – evacuation is forbidden. Did Netanyahu really warn?

- In February 2000, former Prime Minister Netanyahu told me that "the security establishment did not let me unilaterally leave Lebanon.".

- In October 2004, Netanyahu voted in favor of the disengagement plan in the Knesset. He said from the Knesset podium that the plan might end positively (yes, yes, he predicted that too), but it might also end with missiles on Ashkelon. In the end, he voted in favor. Just a week before the evacuation, he resigned from his position.

The enormous absurdity of these elections is that Netanyahu is waving his political and security record, a poor and dangerous record, and he is doing everything not to mention the economy and society, when it is precisely there that he has several achievements.

• The article was published this morning in Haaretz. From Raviv Drucker's blog: http://drucker10.net