Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Jabotinsky would probably find pride in the fact that a son of Ben-Zion Netanyahu z”l, who was his closest aid and an acclaimed historian, is carrying the torch.

‘Fake news” is not a new concept. Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky, whose yahrzeit, or death anniversary, is today, the 29th of the Hebrew month Tammuz 1940, was a victim.

Tragedy has seldom been more intense.

Attending along with the current teenage members was 94-year-old Idit Liberman, whose meeting with Zev Jabotinsky in Germany led to her escape from the Holocaust.

If we can look dispassionately at Vladimir Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion’s principles, we find something there is a marked similarity in ideals, albeit due to differences of place and time.

Indeed, political secession almost always fail, and Bennett’s will be no exception.

“It is foolish to identify majority rule with the essence of democracy and freedom.... In an ideal state, compromise between majority and minority should be a permanent rule.”

Many ideas that he wrote about in the 1920s and 1930s have now come to fruition such as the concept of individual and national pride, evident in his phrase, “every individual is a king.”

The courts override law and the nation-state law are anti-democratic, anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist and must be forcefully opposed before Israel becomes Putin’s Russia or Erdogan’s Turkey.

Political realities have forced Netanyahu to recalibrate his party’s position.