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Hazony founded the Edmund Burke Foundation in Washington to strengthen ‘the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries’.
Hazony, writing just after [Meir] Kahane’s assassination in 1990, made clear that he never subscribed to his violent political views, but he did adopt Kahane’s neo-messianic brand of theology.
Hazony helped edit Netanyahu’s A Place Among the Nations, the book which set out the future prime minister’s programme.
Netanyahu asserts (in the Hebrew edition) that ‘the Israeli left may be suffering from a chronic disease that has affected the Jewish people for a century: the Marxism that impregnated the Jewish leftist, far-left and communist movements in Eastern Europe.’ An affliction that might explain why, after the June 1967 war, some leftwing Israelis wanted to give back the conquered territories.
Hazony takes Asa Kasher, a philosopher at Tel Aviv University to task: ‘Kasher claims that a “Jewish and democratic” state is one in which the people are Jewish and the state is a universalist democracy. In other words, a “Jewish and democratic Jewish state” is a non-Jewish state’.
Hazony criticises Israel’s leading writers too for rejecting the very concept of a Jewish state. Among them are the late Amos Oz.
Hazony, through his ties to the Republicans and the Jewish right in the US, is a central part of the religious Zionist ideological ecosystem of messianic rabbis and ultra-nationalist organisations that has built up over years.
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