The Jabotinsky Legacy

Herb Zweibom President of AFSI at the Edmund Safra Synagogue memorial noted:

The Jewish Press article by Sidman noted this from Minister Arens recounting of his last memories of Jabotinsky.

Referring to the fact that Jabotinsky’s prophetic words about the fate of European Jewry had largely fallen on deaf ears, Arens said “the tragedy of it all is that in reality Jabotinsky died of a broken heart.”

At a recent Fordham University forum, reported in the Jerusalem Post, on the failure of Wise and other American Jewish leaders during the Holocaust, Rabbi David Ellenson, President of the Reform Movement, Hebrew Union College in Manhattan commented on how vitriolic the opposition to Jabotinsky and the Revisionists was:

As regards the current corrupt political system in Israel, Jabotinsky presciently had this to say:

Democratic governments were created under the banner of the struggle against different types of minority governments. The sense of the mainspring of democracy should rather be sought in the science of agreement and compromise.

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