This rated home-page coverage in Haaretz: comparison of Sarah Palin to Menachem Begin from the leader of a rightwing American Jewish group that supports Palin.
Remember that Zev Chafets–Menachem Begin’s former press secretary, who is from the United States– wrote the laudatory New York Times Magazine pieces on Rush Limbaugh and Mike Huckabee; and Chafets more recently has published a flattering biography of Limbaugh. So the Israeli right is cornering the foreign market on the talents of the American populist right. To judge by the visits and announced visits to Israel, by Limbaugh, Huckabee, and Palin, it’s a two-way traffic.
