| Revisionism and political correctness, aka mind control, is a staple
of the Left and has been elevated to an artform in Israel. That's
another
good reason to keep the useful idiots away from ministries and other
centers of power. The Jerusalem Post ANOTHER TACK: Yoni & the Scheinermans By Sarah Honig February, 15 2001 (February 15) Yonatan Netanyahu fell in the 1976 Entebbe rescue. He was revered as a hero in the war against terrorism. But as his brother Bibi became a potent political threat to the Left, Yoni fell out of favor. Not only was it okay to denigrate him and diminish his role in the daring rescue, but in some milieus the dead young man became anathema. One such social setting is my well-off middle-sized town in the middle of Israel, where a junior high school was once even named in Yonatan' s honor, when it was still the fashionably sanctioned thing to do. The school's entrance was dominated by a large portrait of the handsome Yoni, which, however, fell on hard times ever since his brother stung the establishment by daring to countermand its wishes and get himself elected prime minister. The more the brother was vilified, the more Yoni's image was defaced with anti-Bibi stickers and blobs of chewed gum. I hadn't visited this wholesome educational environment since my daughter's graduation in the summer of 1998. I returned there to vote in the recent election and wondered how Yoni's photo was faring. But it was nowhere to be seen, replaced with one of Haim Weizman. Thankfully, there was no backlash against the first president's likeness, although his nephew's political meanderings nettled the suburban gentry, which overwhelmingly voted for Barak. Hapless Yoni, however, was banished to a secluded, out-of-the-way corner of the anyway isolated, small, underused library in the very school supposed to commemorate his legacy. Intolerance isn't new to this traditionally left-leaning part of the country. We live a hop and a skip from Ariel Sharon's native moshav, Kfar Malal. There, too, Barak won - by a landslide. But that by no means implies rejection of a previously favorite son. Sharon, in fact, was never favored. His parents Dvora (Vera) and Shmuel Scheinerman were the odd couple out. They were too educated and quoted too much Russian poetry. He was an agronomist and she once a medical student. They made Ariel and his older sister Dita do their homework and take violin lessons (which Arik quickly quit). Their house was full of books but extremely poor. Dvora worked barefoot in the fields, citrus grove, tobacco patch, cow barn and goat shed. Instead of buying herself shoes, she saved for the children's education. Unlike most their neighbors, the Scheinermans insisted their kids attend high school. But such differences were only background for the Scheinermans' eventual ostracism. It followed the 1933 Arlozorov murder when Dvora and Shmuel refused to endorse the Labor movement's anti-Revisionist calumny and participate in Bolshevic-style public revilement rallies, then the order of the day. Retribution was quick to come. They were expelled from the local health-fund clinic and village synagogue. The cooperative's truck wouldn't make deliveries to their farm nor collect produce. In his will, Shmuel Scheinerman requested that no one from Kfar Malal eulogize him and that his body not be driven to the cemetery in the communal pick-up. So, though reared in a Mapainik home and active in Mapai's socialist youth movement, Sharon was no stranger to partisan narrowmindedness. He is thus prepared now for what awaits him. He knows he has already been labeled a murderer and portrayed as a swastika-festooned vampire with fangs dripping blood. This wasn't decried as incitement. Presumably, hate promulgated by ultra-doves constitutes legitimate, righteous indignation. That's why Barak's entire campaign, enthusiastically aided and abetted by Meretz, was based on demonizing Sharon. And that was mere prelude. Sharon won't be forgiven for winning, especially for winning so big. Anyone who doubts this should read novelist Yoram Kaniuk's recently-published post-election musings. He's very in with the in-crowd and accurately expresses its mood, though perhaps less restrainedly than some fellow leftist literati. And thus spake Kaniuk: "Victory came to the minority which regards Israel as the Jewish people's retaliation... This Israel is a cowardly vendetta, attired in Chechnian ideological robes... Those who voted against Arafat, voted against themselves... The winners are a savage tribe. It thinks Tel Hai is a fighter jet. It yearns for revenge and reckons that with shouts and knives it can solve a hundred-year-old conflict." So there you have it. The pure, principled Oslo sophisticates will soon resume scribbling swastikas and screaming "murderer" in the name of high-minded morals. They'll never tire of reminding us admonishingly how close Barak came to contracting a lasting peace with Clinton. They'll rediscover their empathy for the beleaguered Arafat and perhaps again hobnob with him on the sly to foil their common foe - that barbarous, lowbrow rabble Kanuik scorns.That mob, which swept the wrong candidate to power, has always been despised by the trendier intellectuals who know it to be partial to fascist rhetoric and strong leaders of the Mussolini mold, if not worse - as Sharon will be made out to be. They depicted Sharon as the harbinger of doom and they'll do their darndest to justify their predictions. They'll approve of nothing he does. Unless of course Sharon subscribes to Arafat's peace formula, whereby the Arabs won't terminate Israel if it self-destructs. This is what Arafat is really after - not a mutually-agreed partition of Western Eretz Yisrael. The Arabs could have had that as far back as 1937 and certainly in 1947. But, in Golda Meir's enduring words: "Occupied territories are not what this dispute is about. We didn't wake up one morning and decide to conquer land. This isn't about some territories but about the whole territory." But then Golda's ample socialist credentials did her just about as little good as do his socialist roots to the Scheinermans' son from Kfar Malal. She was extremely politically-incorrect already during her lifetime. Her death made it all the easier to rewrite her record and mask vicious revisions as historical fact. Her penchant for calling it as she saw it cast her as unenlightened and made her totally unacceptable to the beautiful people. Just as Yoni Netanyahu's picture is unacceptable, lest he become a role model for the beautiful people's beautiful offspring. This article can also be read at Jerusalem Post Self-Portrait of a Hero : From the Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu, 1963-1976 by Jonathan Netanyahu edited by Benjamin Netanyahu to order from Amazon.com |
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