The Ironic Life of B. Netanyahu

by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

In 1976, Yonatan Netanyahu was killed in the otherwise spectacular success of the rescue at Entebbe, after which his brother Benyamin abandoned a budding career in business for spokesman for a war with “terrorism,” if not homicidal Muslim Jew-hatred which has always been the subterranean root of the fake “Palestinian war of national liberation.”

He was so successful, the Israeli government appointed him in 1984 ambassador to the United Nations, where he became even more successful via television interviews.

In 1993, he published an English version of a book he wrote in Hebrew but in English entitled A Place Among the Nations. And now, judging by his latest speech on the podium in the UN General Assembly, he experienced, and not for the first time there, Israel’s place is not among the nations but outside of them, evidence of the failure of Zionism to end antisemitism as hoped for by Israel’s secular founding fathers.

In particular, the dominant, pioneering Zionists inspired by Theodore Herzl aspired to creating a “New Jew,” their language, who would be different from Jews as they had been known over 18 centuries of exile; victims of violent gentiles against whom they were helpless.

They also, like Herzl, abandoned the classic Jewish lifestyle including the spiritual discipline of the dietary laws, the weekly observance of the Sabbath (the Fourth Commandment of the Ten), other holy days, and the daily behaviors of prayer and the binding of Exodus 13 in little boxes on their heads and arms.

The socialist Zionists in particular, in varying degrees respect for the hateful-of-religion Karl Marx, thought the Jewish religion itself was the cause of antisemitism. They envisioned a state of Jews, if not a Jewish state. Indeed, the title of Herzl’s book in English “The Jewish State” is in error. In his native German, it was Der Judenstaat which properly translated means the state of Jews which is a different proposition. It is one thing to be born to a mother who is legally a Jew in Jewish jurisprudence, and another to be Jewish in one’s behavior and beliefs. E.g. Marx, Bernie Sanders, George Soros.

Ironically, although Israel’s prime minister is a man of the pro-capitalist, liberal democratic tradition, as a secular Zionist he shares with Israeli leftists a distance from the classical Jewish way of life and the belief of the late Marxist Shimon Peres that the road to peace is paved with friendly commercial relations.

In 1993, a few months after the Handshake on the White House Land between Peres and Rabin and the bloody hands of Arafat and Abbas, the greatest Jew-killers since the Nazis, Peres published a book entitled The New Middle East in which he, admired by fans as a “visionary,” envisioned the Oslo peace process leading to a Middle East imitating the European Union that had erased borders and visas; a region of peace featuring Israeli and Arab-state tourists and businessmen freely visiting one another’s countries. Peres even envisioned Israel joining the Arab League!

Ironically, Netanyahu has the same dream called the Abraham Accords, manifesting a misunderstanding of Abraham and his progeny. The ignorant imagine a “reconciliation” between the first two sons of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, when the Jewish Bible hints not at all at such an event, if only because when Isaac was a mere two-year-old, his older half-brother age 16 was expelled from the country by their father Abraham encouraged by G-d to listen to his wife Sarah who feared that when her aged husband passed, Ishmael would be capable of murdering their son Isaac in order to steal Isaac’s inheritance of the wealth of their father and religious heritage no less.

It was a basic tenet of the secular Zionists that peace with the Arabs was possible by shedding the Jewish religion and becoming a “normal” state in which like other Liberal Democracies religion played no role in public life.

On July 13, 1992, the Communist-raised Isaac Rabin became prime minister for the second time and in his first address to the Knesset quoted the famous prophesy in the Bible of the gentile priest Balaam that the Children of Israel would be “a people that dwells alone,” and barked “No more!” Uneducated in the Jews’ national constitution, the Five Books of Moses, this ignoramus did not understand that in this episode, everything said by Balaam intended by him to be a curse was a blessing. For Rabin, peace with the Arabs meant the end of isolation, when Balaam said what he said gazing from a high promontory down on 12 tribes, more than million proto-Jews, living a peaceful, organized life governed by 613 written laws and administrated by judges and constables, in contrast to the Children of Ishmael to this day — thousands of years later — still hobbled by a tribal culture that produces endless civil wars. In this writer’s lifetime, there have been such wars in Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, producing millions of deaths. “A people than dwells alone” meant for its excellence by living according to the laws in the Five Books.

Six months later after Rabin’s speech, Peres’ “poodle,” Rabin’s nickname for Yossi Beilin, met with Arafat’s people in secret plotting to end Israel’s isolation for being unique in the “council of nations” by opposing statehood for this allegedly ancient nation when Israel’s goal was to have “a place among the nations.” Being odd man out on justice for the alleged “victims of Zionism” was no way to “win friends and influence people.”

But as we have seen every year when the prime minister addresses the annual fall “company” picnic for UN member-states, the world’s only Jewish state is most certainly chosen for special treatment with the walkout of 75% of the countries in order to disrespect the uniquely Jewish state’s prime minister, leaving him and his country alone among the nations.

In conclusion, and considering the tsunami of Jew-hatred world-wide since the horrors of October 7, 2, the secular Zionist goal of ending the Jewish people’s isolation has been a failure. Daily, as in Manchester, England, we hear of individual Jews being physically attacked by total strangers; daily, countries and corporations are cutting lies with Israel.

We were also witness last month to the UN deliberately scheduling an “emergency” meeting of the Security Council on Rosh HaShana ensuring the inability of Israel to attend and defend itself. The prime minister’s flight plan from Israel to New York was also uniquely changed because some states denied him the right to fly over in their air space, requiring a much longer flight and of course at greater expense.

Perhaps it is time for Israel to understand that “a people that dwells alone” not as the Jewish ignoramus Rabin thought, as taught by his parents to mock Jewishness, because religion was the “opiate of the masses.”

Indeed, in 1967, the iconic hero of the New Jew, Moshe Dayan, on Wednesday of the Six-Day War, ordered soldiers to remove the Israeli flag from atop the Dome of the Rock, the Islamic “war memorial” for Islam’s dispossessing of the Jews’ as Allah’s chosen people. Dayan sneered at the time, “Who needs this Vatican? The Temple Mount has no religious significance for Israelis, only historic.” He also asked the Muslim custodians who had fled to Jordan in the fighting to return and resume their roles administering the holiest site of the Jewish people.

However, there is a silver lining to the clouds the post-Jews of Israel experience at remaining a “people that dwells alone,” which is the astonishing fulfillment of that Biblical prophesy made over 3,000 years ago. By their chronic hatred of the Jews, the goyim are unwitting players in the fulfilment of that prophesy, which proud Jews might relate to not with anger but smiles. What an honor to be shunned by that organization of corrupt, do-nothing bureaucrats.

Israel’s Bibi wanted a “place among the nations,” which aspiration contradicts the message of the Bible, so it seems the Author of that text, knew better that Israel’s place is to be alone among the nations.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com and www.IsraelNewsTalk Radio.com