Israel honors its' fascist Jewish heroes:
Here's a deeper move in Israel towards fascism. One of the old Jewish Zionist Nazis has been awarded a day in his name. Behold Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of "Revisionist" Zionism, who once said: "Every race possessing a definite uniqueness seeks to become a nation, that is, to create for itself an economic, political, and intellectual environment in which every detail will derive from its specific thought and consequence that will also relate to its specific taste. A specific race can establish such an environment only in its own country, where it is master. For this reason every race seeks to become a state." [AVISHAI, B., p. 225] "Breaking away [from other Zionist groups] in the 1920s," says Peter Grose, "Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism organized its own fighting force in Palestine. The Irgun Zvai Leumi came to remind unsympathetic outsiders of Mussolini fascists; [Israel's first prime minister David] Ben-Gurion called the Revisionist leader 'Vladimir Hitler.'" [GROSE, p. 161] "Revisionists," notes Edwin Black, "... were heavily fascists and profoundly influenced by Mussolini ... True to fascist ideology, the fist and shout were the preferred methods of achieving Revisionist goals." [BLACK, E., p. 143] "Jabotinsky's most cherished creation was Betar," noted Livneh Eliezer, "[This] youth movement ... was ... a semi-militaristic entity that stressed hierarchy, discipline, obedience to superiors, rituals, and ceremonies. Military values [were] ... a virtue." [ELIEZER, p. 16] Some in the Revisionist camp in the 1930s, notes Jewish scholar Walter Laquer, "expressed the view that but for Hitler's anti-Semitism German National Socialism would have been acceptable [to Jews] and that, anyway, Hitler had saved Germany [LAQUER, W., p. 33] ... Within the [Revisionist] movement there were ... sections, some of them influential [where] fascist ideas had made considerable headway and, but for the rise of Hitler and Nazism, would no doubt have become even more prominent." [LAQUER, p. 382]
Law honoring Zionist forefather passed. Jabotinsky Day will be celebrated annually to commemorate one of Zionism's great forefathers; law created in bid to bring public closer to Zionist values,
<by Ilan Marciano, Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel), March 23, 2005
"The Knesset approved the Zeev [i.e., Hebrewized from Vladimir] Jabotinsky Law Wednesday after it passed a second and third reading, following in the footsteps of the Binyamin Zeev Herzl [i.e, Hebrewized from Theodore Herzl] Law and Rehavam Zeevi law. The main objective of the law is "to endow future generations with Jabotinsky's vision and legacy, to commemorate his memory and to educate future generations with Zionist goals and visions." Knesset member and law initiator Ronnie Bar-On (Likud) said the law was created because Jabotinsky is considered one of the great forefathers of Zionism who dedicated his life to establishing a Jewish State in Israel. "He left an impression on Zionism and on the country's identity in the same spirit as the country's visionary Binyamin Zeev Herzl," he said. "Jabotinsky's vision laid down the foundations for a liberal and modern country based on democratic values and concern for fellow-man and minorities." Bringing Israel closer to Zionism Bar-On said the law had been created in a bid to draw Israel's youth and public closer to Zionist values and to instill within them the Zionist legacy and perpetual memory of the Zionist forefathers. To implement these values, "Zeev Jabotinsky Day" will be celebrated on an annual basis with educational activities in schools, the IDF and public institutions ... Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a Zionist philosopher, author and journalist, who founded and lead the Revisionist movement. He was prompted into Zionist thought during Russian pogroms against the Jews and within a short while was one of the leading Zionist personalities in Russia. In 1925, he established the Union of Zionists-Revisionists (Hatzohar) which called for the immediate establishment of a Jewish State. He is the forefather of Zionist activism and greatly influenced the political vision of the right-wing political parties in Israel." |
