Critique of Netanyahu's Leadership and Identity

Sells Netanyahu, but it's just a stolen name,

a Hebrew mask plastered over a European exile's

face.

His real name was Milikowski, born of Ashkenazi lineage

from Poland. Benjamin Netanyahu has neither the blood,

nor the land, nor the language of those he claims to

represent.

His Judaism is not that of the shepherds of Hebron, nor the

poets of Jaffa. It is the Judaism of a colonizer from

elsewhere, who put on the prophet's robe to hide the

scent of

ashes. Because what he represents today is not a

people. It is a machine, a political, military,

ideological machine, a machine of steel and contempt.

Netanyahu didn't grow up on the banks of the Jordan.

He grew up in the salons of New York's conservative elite and the

ultra-nationalist sermons of his father, Benzion, the

hardline Zionist historian. He never spoke

Arabic. He never shared bread with a Palestinian.

He never had to bury a child beneath the rubble of an Israeli

airstrike.

He is not from this land. He took it.

And yet he decides. He demolishes.

He signs the orders. Today, under his rule,

Gaza is a graveyard for children.