Posted on 08/17/2010 5:42:56 PM PDT by markomalley
Two photographs adorn the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike -- in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies -- than Netanyahu, the former commando and fierce nationalist, and Barack Obama, the former professor and post-nationalist.
One photograph is of Theodor Herzl, born 150 years ago. Dismayed by the eruption of anti-Semitism in France during the Dreyfus Affair at the end of the 19th century, Herzl became Zionism's founding father. Long before the Holocaust, he concluded that Jews could find safety only in a national homeland.
The other photograph is of Winston Churchill, who considered himself "one of the authors" of Britain's embrace of Zionism. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 stated: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Beginning in 1923, Britain would govern Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
Netanyahu, his focus firmly on Iran, honors Churchill because he did not flinch from facts about gathering storms. Obama returned to the British Embassy in Washington the bust of Churchill that was in the Oval Office when he got there.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“No one is less a transnational progressive, less a post-nationalist, than Binyamin Netanyahu, whose first name is that of a son of Jacob, who lived perhaps 4,000 years ago. Netanyahu, whom no one ever called cuddly, once said to a U.S. diplomat 10 words that should warn U.S. policymakers who hope to make Netanyahu malleable: ‘You live in Chevy Chase. Don’t play with our future.’”
A-freaking-MEN!!!
Thx for the post. I’ve always worshipped Churchill and Netanyahu. We need more of this kind of education.
You’re right. One of the few George Will columns in recent months, that was worth reading.
In my view, Binyamin Netanyahu is the leader of the free world.
Pray for him. Pray for Israel.
I fully support Netanyahu, and the Jewish people’s realized desire for a Jewish homeland.
Perhaps someday we can have an American homeland. But for now America belongs to the world - anyone who wants can come here and be an instant American. Any culture that wants to lay claim to a piece of America -even a building two blocks from the site of the WTC attrocity - can do so, and will be protected by our misguided elites.
Who is the American Nationalist to equal Netanyahu?
additional:
Israel’s anti-Obama
Jewish World Review | 8/12/10 | George Will
Posted on 08/12/2010 9:04:17 AM PDT by rhema
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