A Peace Legacy For Netanyahu's Hard-Line Dad?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his father Benzion attend the official memorial service for the late Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky at the Mt. Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Kobi Gideon, Pool)

Bloomberg:

The historian Benzion Netanyahu, who died today at 102, was sometimes asked to explain the miracle of Jewish survival through millenniums of persecution. Netanyahu -- the father of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin -- would answer the question in a way his interlocutors did not at all expect.

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Comments

[Progressneeded]

10:40 AM on 05/02/2012

War is peace? That explains it all.

[Farmers Market]

03:26 AM on 05/02/2012

Israeli government policies are the real existential threats to Israel; not theoretical Iran WMDs. Netanyahu has damaged Israel almost beyond repair in the world of public opinion.

[Macready]

06:13 AM on 05/02/2012

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[A Jew with a View]

09:13 AM on 05/01/2012

May his memory be for a blessing.

[blutopie]

08:14 AM on 05/01/2012

Best wishes for Mr Netanyahu that he finds the peace he wished on others all his life in just the special place that he deserves

'they will maintain quiet as long as they understand that doing anything else will cause them great pain."

No need to mention who would be speaking that line, and who the targets of such a demented philosophy would have been.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/obama-doesn-t-need-israeli-ex-officials-to-know-netanyahu-doesn-t-want-peace-1.427417

[vascopyjama]

03:45 AM on 05/01/2012

Strange isn't it, his son is trying to rewrite history.

[Yank in France]

03:41 AM on 05/01/2012

What a terrible legacy Benzion Netanyahu has left his son and his nation: the COLLECTIVE stereotyping and DEHUMANIZATION of an entire people with the expressed aim of dispossesing and expelling them.

While Israelis seem eager to learn from history, too many Israelis, including their bully lobby in the US, seem more intent on learning the methods of their oppressors than learning from their moral and political errors!

[tallen]

08:26 PM on 05/01/2012

Aside from the fact that you spew ad nauseum the shameless lies of "dehumanizaton" and *expulsion*...despite the fact that over 1 million arabs are Israeli citizens.

You always forget that the palestinian goal is to kill every single Jew...and Christian, in the region...or maybe they mean the entire world.
Yes...religiously inspired genocide.
And you never have a problem with that.

Hamas: Kill Christians and Jews "to the last one"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI8-qb9M9A

[Yank in France]

03:39 AM on 05/02/2012

Same old "bow wow" and "ruff" talk from the Christian Zionist bunker in Virginai! LOL!!

[Progressneeded]

10:41 AM on 05/02/2012

Not shameless lies. But then you are too blinded by your own prejudices to see what is being done to the Palestinian people or to even care to find out!

[madrediterra]

01:13 AM on 05/01/2012

Not even a hint.

[antonioarganda]

11:07 PM on 04/30/2012

The Spanish Inquisition was motivated by greed, not by racism. The way it worked was that someone was brought to trial and the judges split up the poor schlep's fortune. This gave them motivation. Muslim converts to Christianity were treated similarly, if they had any money. The fact that many Jewish converts attempted to keep ancestral traditions did not help. I have seen statues of the Virgen Mary that opened into menorahs. Those who converted out of convenience would have been better off going into exile like most Sephardim decided to do. Dredging up past injustices does not help anyone. What if descendants of the Caananites (Palestinians) were to bring up the massacre of their ancestors? The sword cuts both ways.

[myopinion2]

09:24 AM on 05/01/2012

Palestinians are no more the anscestors of the Canaanites than are the Jews, the Syrians, the lebanese, the Jordanians.

[Sonic hedgehog]

09:57 AM on 05/02/2012

It's very possible that all of those people have some canaanite ancestry. Maybe some of them more than others.