Rabin and Netanyahu

I hope you’ll take a moment to read this piece. I commissioned it myself. It’s by my friend Ron Kampeas, of the JTA. Ron looks beyond the current storm over the Netanyahu speech to look at and contrast Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzhak Rabin – but not just in the ways you might expect, with respect to ideology and the Peace Process. He looks at their very different conceptions of Zionism and Israel and the latter’s relationship to the United States – their own relationships to the United States. A grown up country? A fully fledged state or in some sense an appendage or half-woven into American Jewry or even speaking for American Jewry? Or America? It’s a fascinating and revealing read. I hope you’ll give it a read.