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Bag’s Take-Away:
Informative close-up by Getty’s Mario Tama of the text of Netanyahu’s UN address, as the PM was giving it, showing through his written edits how he made it not just more declarative and aggressive (removal of “enabling” emphasizes action and insistence over process), and still more unilateral and emphatic (adding “THAT’S WHAT WE SHOULD AIM FOR!” in all caps — with exclamation mark, to boot.)(photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images caption: Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, delivers an address to the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on September 23, 2011 in New York City. This is the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly including heads of state from over 120 countries.)
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