( Mods: This seems recent enough? )
The way this got started was I received a book catalog from
University of Chicago, I get lots of those. Inside were some
listings of books by Leo Strauss, as in Straussian, which
got me to thinking about him. So I was doing some web browsing
looking for stuff about Strauss and his "philosophy" and after
reading various other things found this piece posted here.
As an aside, I'm fairly sure these folks, the Straussians, are
the same UChi philosophy professors that Robert M. Pirsig discusses
in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"; the timing,
location, and subject matter are all perfect. Vine DeLoria Jr, in
"Evolution, Creationism, and other Modern Myths" does a nice
deconstruction of the Western dichotomy between reason and revelation
too, and it would be interesting to see a Straussian defense against
his criticisms.====
The official death of the Likud occurred when
Benjamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister
in May 1996. Mr. Netanyahu said his government
would abide by the Oslo or Israel-PLO
Agreement, an agreement born in deception.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon removed any doubt
about the death of the Likud - and of Zionism -
when he appointed the devious Shimon Peres as
foreign minister after the February 2001 national
election.
And so, the Likud is dead, and no one, including
Moshe Feiglin, can resurrect that party. As the
sages have said, ?You can?t make a crooked line
straight.?
But why did the Likud fail? Mr. Feiglin would
have us believe that the Likud has not been true to
its Zionist principles. But the Likud was never a
truly Zionist party.
What indeed is a ?Zionist?? Consider. The Likud
won 38 seats in the January 2003 Knesset election.
Most of their occupants regard themselves as
?political? Zionists; the rest boast of being
?cultural? Zionists. Therein is the failure of the
Likud. Let us try to understand this.
Arutz Sheva
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