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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.

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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...

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