Uri Avnery on former security chiefs Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin trying to stop the Netanyahu government– goes from the failure to negotiate with Palestinians to the death of Netanyahu’s father:
According to Diskin – and who would know better? – Israel is now led by two incompetent politicians with messianic delusions and a poor grasp of reality. Their plan to attack Iran is leading to a world-wide catastrophe. Not only will it fail to prevent the production of an Iranian atom bomb, but, on the contrary, it will hasten this effort, this time with the support of the world community.
Going further than Dagan, he stated that the only factor preventing peace negotiations with the Palestinians is Netanyahu himself. Israel can make peace with Mahmoud Abbas at any time, and missing this historic opportunity will bring disaster upon Israel….
THE MAN accused by his security advisers[ ]of messianic tendencies was exposed to personal scrutiny by another event this week.
His father, Ben-Zion Netanyahu, died at age 102, having remained of clear mind to the end. At the public funeral, he was eulogized by Binyamin. As could be expected, it was a kitschy speech. The son addressed his dead father in the second person – (“You taught me”…”You formed my character” etc) – a vulgar practice I find particularly distasteful. He also shed tears on camera.
There is no doubt that the father had a huge influence on his son. He was a professor of history, whose whole intellectual life was centered on one topic: the Spanish inquisition – a traumatic chapter in Jewish history comparable only to the Holocaust.
Ben-Zion Netanyahu was an extreme rightist, obsessed by the idea that Jews might be exterminated at any moment, and therefore cannot trust any Goy. He held Menachem Begin in contempt, considering him a softy, and never joined his party. His intellectual attitude was reinforced by a personal trauma: his eldest son, Yoni, the commander of the spectacular Entebbe raid, was the only soldier killed in this operation.
It seems that he didn’t have such a high opinion of his second son. He once remarked publicly that Binyamin was unfit to be prime minister, but would make a good foreign minister – an uncannily accurate judgment, if one sees the job of the foreign minister as marketing.
The home in which “Bibi” grew up was not a very happy one. The father was a deeply embittered man. As a historian, he was never accepted by the academic world in Jerusalem, who disavowed his theories….
All this shaped the character and world view of “Bibi” – the specter of imminent national annihilation, the role model of the fiercely rightist father, the shadow of the older and much more admired brother. When Binyamin now speaks endlessly about the coming Second Holocaust and his historical role in preventing it, this need not be just a ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue or to safeguard his political survival. He may – frightening thought!!! – actually believe it.
The picture that emerges is exactly that painted by Yuval Diskin: a Holocaust-obsessed fantasist, out of contact with reality, distrusting all Goyim, trying to follow in the footsteps of a rigid and extremist father – altogether a dangerous person to lead a nation in a real crisis.
Yet this is the man who, according to all opinion polls, is going to win the upcoming elections, just four months from now.
So what else have you got to cheer me up?
Great another specialist psychologist Uri Avnery .
That is almost funny.
Uri Avneri is probably considered a Goy (by choice) in Israel since he doesn’t believe in Jewish-Israeli exceptionalism. I wonder why he hasn’t left Israel for good.
‘People think the Holocaust ended,’ said Benzion Netanyahu in 2009 to Channel 2’s political correspondent Amit Segal. ‘The Holocaust didn’t end. It continues all the time.’
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/david-ben-gurion-s-diary-invites-a-rethink-of-benzion-netanyahu-s-extreme-zionist-image-1.428236
Oh yes we understand Benjamin Natanyahu’s pathology only too well.
so obsessed with the holocaust is the zionist entity’s prime minister that it’s difficult
not to associate him with dr strangelove’s “how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.” he’s long post-due being put away for safe keeping in some mid-atlantic site, the isle of saint helene, for example.