An era of depression, hope too

In continuation of my obsession of pointing to the historically most interesting articles in the English language Israeli press, I want to hint you to this most interesting extended book review of "Menachem Begin: Portrait of a Leader" (Resling Publishing; in Hebrew) by one Dr. Ofer Grosbard. The article is by Dalia Karpel and goes by the title of The depression era. As there are not many among you and us that will be able to read this book in Hebrew and as the topic and results of it are so intimately Israeli-Jewish that a translation will surely be slow to come, don't miss this.

Talking about leaders "Begin was the only leader in the Western world who lost eight consecutive elections and won the ninth. Herut did not need a rotating leader. They needed a father figure. This, by the way, was also how he succeeded in mediating between himself and the Jews who arrived from the Arab states."

ANTSCD: Two more things that two good guys dug up You need to be able to read French to consumate an article of Le Monde that the betablogger found and had the grace to deeplink for us: L'imprécateur de Clearstream. Good metainformation about the real heart of Europe and its debates. If you have read unto here then you know English and it is easy to recommend The Magicians, the Snark and the Camel, a 1981 article by Ted Nelson before he was to bitter. The text has been found and linked by langreiter.