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Time Magazine named Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to its list of the 100 most influential people in the world for the second year in a row.
This is the first time an Israeli leader has appeared on the list twice since it was initiated in 2004. In addition to Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made the list in 2009, Ehud Olmert in 2006 when he was prime minister, and Ariel Sharon in 2005 when he was leading the country.
Each entry in the magazine is accompanied by a short blurb, with US House majority leader Eric Cantor doing the honors for Netanyahu.
Cantor called Netanyahu "among the world's great leaders," and described him as an "iconic" Israeli, "a strong, determined leader who has excelled during a lifetime of service to the State of Israel."
At a time of "tremendous international instability and growing danger," Cantor said Netanyahu "provided a compelling and reasoned exposition of one of the gravest threats facing the world today. He deserves credit for drawing attention to the threat Iran poses to Israel, to America, to the region, to its own people and to the free world. Confronting Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and sponsorship of terrorism is an urgent task for all of us. At this perilous moment, Prime Minister Netanyahu is the right leader for Israel and the right partner for America."
Cantor, in his comments, did not mention the Palestinians at all, indicative of the degree to which that issue has faded from the world's attention.
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