Tag Archives: Benzion Netanyahu

ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading

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ascending to the temple mount

Twenty-eight years in opposition. Twenty-eight years as head of the official opposition. That was Menachem Begin. No where else in the world would someone ply on, election after election destined for official opposition status. The story goes, that Begin met … Continue reading

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remolding the scattered

There is no question there has been a fragmentation, a near collapse of the relationship between the ruling class of Israel, the secular establishment and all its state sanctioned apparatus of control , the bureaucracy, and the disparate elements that … Continue reading

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let them make soap

Homeland insecurity… Israel is the world’s greatest propaganda machine, or at least right up there. The spin is a democratic nation that will taken in any jew and give citizenship ; the sheer weight and swagger, read indoctrinated egotism of … Continue reading

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corridors of power

They needed the labor. So, the arrangement was to create this fictitious identity called religious Zionism , an oxymoron and make them believe they held real power. It a stretch to imagine it, but Netanyahu’s grandfather was a rabbi and … Continue reading

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free at last: chains across the great divide

Prime Minister Rabin went so far as to call the “loyalist” Jews in the West Bank settlements, “cry babies”. Hagai Amir, accused of conspiracy with his brother Yigal in the assassination of Rabin, has been released and the sixteen plus … Continue reading

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remnants of remnants

… the passing of Benzion Netanyahu, scholar, Zionist leader, and father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was 102.He saw a lot. He was termed a right wing nutjob and loathed by the bourgeois white liberal Israeli establishment. The problem … Continue reading

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