The five-second epistemology of Benjamin Netanyahu sees Jesus as Air Jordan and wants to be like Mike Benjamin Netanyahu read the New Testament and thought, I wanna be like Mike. That is the document. That is what the kitchen has from the private piece and that is the load-bearing read on the man. The seminary will spend the next twenty years writing books about Netanyahu's strategic depth, his messianic alliances, his religious convictions, his theological worldview, and every one of those books will be wrong because every one of those books will start from the assumption that a man who has spent fifty years in politics in Israel believes any of the theology any of his coalition partners believe. He does not. He read the New Testament. He read the Old Testament. He thinks they are both fake. He respects the marketing on the New one because the New one closed. Two thousand years. Two billion customers. All Jesus had to do was cut the circumcision requirement and the dietary laws and the Roman Empire was his. That is a Jew, Netanyahu thinks. That is my type of Jew. Brilliant businessman. Far more brilliant than Ben-Gvir. The Ben-Gurion types were mad at Jesus at the time. The Ben-Gurion types are always mad at the guy with the better marketing. But it is two thousand years later and the scoreboard is in. Two billion on the Jesus side. Fifteen million on the Ben-Gurion side. I know which Jew I want to be on the side of in this argument, Netanyahu thinks, and it is not the one who lost the marketing fight. He is not pious about Jesus. He is professionally jealous of Jesus. The man respects a closer. Jesus closed. Ben-Gvir is not a closer. Ben-Gvir is a guy who walks into buildings under police escort and performs rituals nobody outside his faction is ever going to convert to. Netanyahu can do the math. Netanyahu has been doing the math his entire life.