The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance - David Remnick - Apr 14, 2019
Illustration by João Fazenda The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance - David Remnick posted at 08:11:25 UTC via newyorker.com The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/04/22 Apr 14, 2019 — Twenty-one years ago, Benzion Netanyahu , a scholar of medieval history and the father of an Israeli Prime Minister serving his first term, ... Twenty-one years ago, Benzion Netanyahu, a scholar of medieval history and the father of an Israeli Prime Minister serving his first term, relaxed with a reporter at his home on Haportzim Street, in West Jerusalem, and wondered aloud if his boy, who went by “ Bibi ,” was made of the right stuff. Benzion was an uncompromising ideologue, a maximalist, and a member of the Revisionist movement. (The Revisionist hymn included the line “the Jordan has two banks; this one is ours, the other one, too.”) He despised the liberal élites. They had stifled his academic career, he believed, and weakened the country with their prattle about making peace with t
