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The strikes in Lebanon may be helping Netanyahu's popularity as a wartime leader

NPR's Scott Simon asks reporter Anshel Pfeffer, author of the biography "Bibi," how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is navigating this moment of conflict in the Middle East.

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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.