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Bibi’s Political Forefather?

JL;DR SUMMARY Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, the founder of Zionism's Revisionist movement, is often criticized as an influence on Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing policies, characterized by some as harsh towards Palestinians. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismBenjamin NetanyahuJewish StateLikud PartyArab Israeli ConflictArab NationalismRevisionist ZionismHistorical InterpretationIron WallVladimir Zeev Jabotinsky

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Yossi Klein Halevi, a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, told me, You cant understand [Jabotinskys] thinking on the Arab-Zionist conflict, his maximalism, without understanding his role as the lone Jewish voice for emergency rescue."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Andrew Sullivan, in his review of Peter Beinarts book The Crisis of Zionism, argued that Netanyahus policy in Gaza and the West Bank, seen in light of Jabotinskys influence, makes more sense its a conscious relentless assault on the lives of Palestinians to immiserate them to such an extent that they flee."
Jordan
"There is no doubt that Jabotinsky insisted on both sides of the Jordan Rivernot only todays Israel and the Palestinian territories, but Jordan as well."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"In a tragically prophetic speech in Warsaw on the Ninth of Av in 1938, he begged the crowd to listen to him and immigrate to Palestine at what he saw as the very last moment before catastrophe."

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