The Israeli Left started with the Labor Zionists who were rabidly anti-Jabotinsky/Revisionist. The true story of Alosorof's murder wasn't important to his friends. All that was important to them was that they could use it to attack the Revisionists.
When they began to fear that Menachem Begin would get too popular, they went back on their agreement with him about using the arms on the Altalena to rescue the Old City of Jerusalem and attacked the ship instead.
When it became obvious that Israel's population hadn't the foggiest notion who Alosorof was and didn't know much more about the Begin's Etzel and Stern's Lechi, Rabin was assassinated, and now whenever they want to galvanize their forces, they just say: "It reminds me of the hatred during the time before Rabin was killed."
Why am I wasting my valuable Friday afternoon on this? I just saw an interesting article in The New York Times which quotes Robert F. Kennedy's impromptu speech after hearing that Martin Luther King had just been murdered.
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."
So different from how the Israeli Left, the politicians and media speak.
Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov
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And the beat goes on. There is nothing new beneath the sun. Shabbat shalom!
Shavua Tov and Chodesh Tov
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