From “Bibi; My Story” by Benjamin Netayahu, about the death of his elder brother Jonathan (Yoni) int the battle against] Jihadi terrorists who hijacked a plane in Uganda's Entebbe airport in 1976:
Yoni expressed his soul in his letters and described his life and thoughts with the terse prose of a natural and powerful writer, at times rising to the poetic. Given that many of these letters were written by candlelight in pup tents or in the field after a grueling day, this was all the more remarkable.
The book was published in English under the title Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu. The New York Times wrote that the book was “a convincing portrayal of a talented, sensitive man who knew that good is no match for evil without the power to physically defend itself.”
The Boston Globe wrote that “Yoni’s unpretentious accounts of his accomplishments, simply written and thus more grand, make him the convincing hero he was and make us wish that more like him were among us.”
Military Review said it was “a magnificent testament to the hero of Entebbe, containing a leadership credo of unmatchable quality.”
I relate this not only to encourage others to read Yoni’s letters and discover for themselves who Yoni was; I bring this up because in many ways these letters saved me.
-- Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu, Kindle edition, p.132, 18%
Bibi Netanyahu fought in two of Israel’s wars -- the 6-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur war -- against Jihadist genocidists.
Bibi's brother Yoni gave his life defending fellow citizens against the Jihadi crazies.
Words like that -- Jihadis as “genociders” and “crazies” -- clearly makes me an Israel supporter. A Zionist. A hater on Palestinian rights, if you will.
I have no problem with raising my hand and saying “yes” I support the independence of Israel, the existence of Israel, the right of Israel to defend itself, even in the surrounding sea of Islam and even at the cost of “innocent civilians”.
As the New York Times said in 1976: “...good is no match for evil without the power to physically defend itself.”
I don’tget the hate on Bibi. Some allege that he’s only prosecuting the current Gaza war to keep himself in power, to avoid prosecution on charges pending. I don’t buy that. Can I prove that he’s not? No I cannot. I just doesn’t add up, for me, when looking at his life. Fighting a war to “avoid prosecution” would be the move of what the Chinese call a 小人, a Xiao Ren a “small person”. And Bibi, by all measures that I’ve seen is a 君人 a Jun Ren a Great Man. A “monarch, a lord, a gentleman, a ruler” amongst men.
That’s my Bibi, and I’ll not buy the hate on him. The hate which comes from both Left and Right. The Left thinks he’s too Patton; the Right thinks he’s too Chamberlain.
What a world. What a war.
Which you can’t fight as you’d like to; you can’t fight as you should. Because you’ve got to watch over your shoulder for what the United States, your main ally, thinks. And what their know-nothing campus-children think. And what the United Nations, and its International Court of Justice thinks, driven as it is by a cabal of jew-hating countries.
That.
