Gershom Gorenberg discusses the legacy of Benzion Netanyahu, a staunch revisionist Zionist and father of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who died at the age of 102.
Honesty is difficult, perhaps distasteful, in talking of man just now dead. Honesty nonetheless requires saying that Benzion Netanyahu would be briefly eulogized as a historian, and more briefly recalled as a footnote to forgotten Zionist rivalries, were it not for his other legacy: the son whose politics, view of...