Critique of Netanyahu's Identity and Politics

They call themselves 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, Ben Zion, the hardline Zionist historian.