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Jul. 7, 2021 3:40 AM
At a time when many people remain preoccupied with the future of Benjamin Netanyahu or of his Likud party once he leaves the scene (which will happen sooner than imagined, “The king is dead – long live the king” is an iron law of politics that even David Ben-Gurion could not defy when he tried to return to the stage after his time as prime minister), the bigger question is the future of the right.
The new government, which joins the parties of the right with those of the left and center, was created mainly out of a desire to escape Netanyahu’s grip. But the coalition was made possible by something deeper yet hidden from view: In 21st-century Israel, there isn’t a secular right with a clear ideology that stands in opposition to the left, certainly not one of the Revisionist mode.
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In a brilliantly-written but yet terribly frightening op-ed our Editor-in-Chief, David Horovitz, has proved to us that “if Netanyahu is not careful, there will be blood.” In it, he cites reasons leading up to fearful possibilities of political assassinations of candidates in the proposed “government of change”.
The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the.
Ahimeir and Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Greenberg founded the Revisionist Maximalist Bloc, whose newspaper Ahimeir edited, and then the clandestine Brit HaBirionim. Inspired by the Sicarii Zealots or “dagger men” during the Jewish revolt against Rome, this became a model for violent underground movements like the Irgun.
From 1933, Ahimeir’s “Revolutionary Zionists” preached a direct confrontation with Nazi Germany. They demonized Haim Arlosoroff for concluding the Transfer Agreement with Berlin, which was a complicated arrangement that resulted in the admission of 60,000 German Jews to the British Mandate. There is no evidence that Arlosoroff was motivated by anything other than what he thought were the best interests of German Jews, and of course, he was assassinated before espousing any further views on relations with Nazi Germany.
Yisrael Medad spent many hours with the poet and Revisionist Zionist Uri Tzvi Greenberg (1896-1981) at Greenberg’s Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. ‘He prayed wrapped in tallit and tefillin, rushing back-and-forth from wall to wall in his living room’ he recalls, ‘less praying than conducting a demanding conversation with God’. Medad rereads Greenberg’s 1929 poem Sicarii II
, with its demand for a rebel’s mindset and a revolutionary spirit, its hymn of praise to Jewish self-assertion and self-emancipation, as a resource for Jews today, inside and outside Israel, in the face of the existential Iranian threat and rising global anti-Semitism.