Posted on 08/20/2008 6:38:09 PM PDT by forkinsocket
"The government took Ze'ev Jabotinsky out of the school textbooks and inserted the Nakba [the Palestinian "disaster" of Israel's founding] instead," opposition leader and Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday during a special Knesset session called during the legislature's summer recess.
Netanyahu was referring to the decision by Education Minister Yuli Tamir (Labor) to remove the writings of Jabotinsky from the curriculum.
Jabotinsky (1880-1940) founded the Zionism revisionist movement, the precursor to the Likud Party. He also helped form the British army's Jewish Legion during World War I, and the Irgun (IZL) underground movement. In addition, he was an author, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.
Netanyahu also slammed the government's decision this week to release 199 security prisoners, two of them with "blood on their hands," as a gesture of goodwill to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
"The government decided several days ago to release hundreds of terrorists, and I ask a simple question: Why? What did we get in return? Releasing killers without gaining anything crosses a very dangerous line in the war on terror. They tell us it will strengthen Abbas, but it only strengthens terrorist groups," Netanyahu said.
He recounted "failures upon failures" in the government's handling of security issues, "beginning in the Second Lebanon War, through the resolutions that came after the war, Hizbullah's rearmament, rocket fire on our communities and, of course, the [Gaza] cease-fire [that began in June] that is helping Hamas rearm. Now we can add this prisoner release to that list of failures."
Netanyahu also criticized the government's economic policies.
"After it has finished harvesting the fruit of the economic growth we created, this government is going to lose [this growth] - the tsunami is on its way. This bodes ill for Israel's economy. You cannot have security without [a strong] economy," he exclaimed.
Deputy Foreign Minister Majallie Whbee (Kadima) responded by saying that Netanyahu "must think the public has the memory of a fish."
Whbee also pointed out that the government had agreed to release only 199 prisoners and "not hundreds," including two murderers who had already served more than 30 years of their sentences.
"The government wants to strengthen pragmatic elements in the Palestinian Authority - the forces that wish to make peace with us," he said.
Whbee also reminded Netanyahu that when the latter was prime minister in the 1997, he approved the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the longtime spiritual leader of Hamas, in return for Mossad agents captured in Jordan.
Throw the socialists out on their ear, get rid of the enemy’s Nakba curriculum, and restor Jabotinsky to his rightful place of honor.
“The government wants to strengthen pragmatic elements in the Palestinian Authority - the forces that wish to make peace with us,” he said.
Jabotinsky said that moderates only emerge once it is safe to do so—and that is after the extremists have been DEFEATED.
The extremists are still in control everywhere, so the true moderates, if any exist, are still keeping their heads down.
Defeat Hamas, Fatah, Hizbollah, etc. so that they no longer have any power to murder those who really wish to make peace, and you might have the basis for a start of negotiations.
To negotiate and give up anything before that is folly.
Amen!
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Jabotinsky was the true founder of Israel. He said to the other zionists, “Hey you socialist idiots. Nobody is going to protect us in Israel. We are going to have to fight for it.”
The left hates him for that to this day.
At best this is actually a partisan move as Revisionist Zionism was the ideological parent of the Likud Party.
Of course the cost of this action to the nation is another frontal assault on Zionism by the criminal Kadima-Labour Junta in Jerusalem.
Dear forkinsocket:
From what I understand about Jabotinsky’s role in Zionist history, taking him out of Israeli history books would be the equivalent of taking Benjamin Franklin out of American history books. Seems like a partisan political move, since Jabotinsky is considered by many as the founding forefather of today’s Likud - based on what I’ve read. Hope they don’t start taking his name off Israeli streets, currency, monuments, stamps, etc. Would you think that a Likud government would restore Jabotinsky’s memory and legacy to its proper place?
Regards,
Justice
Yeah but it would be mostly lip service, frankly. I’m not one to put my faith in any political party in particular, just in individual people who seem to have fresh ideas, good ideas &/or a strong identity.
Jabotinsky represents certain things that Jews want to erase from their minds right now, so it’s logical that they’d want to erase him from the books too. Since so many Jews base their Jewish identity on victimhood, no wonder the nakba is so attractive to them.
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