Ben-Zion Netanyahu

Being someone who's not overly concerned with all the brouhaha around the Iranian nuclear program, the following part of Jeffery Goldberg's article on the subject is what actually caught my eyes the most:

One of Netanyahu’s Knesset allies told me, indelicately, though perhaps not inaccurately, that the chance for movement toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state will come only after Ben-Zion’s [Netanyahu's father] death. “Bibi could not withdraw from more of Judea and Samaria”—the biblical names for the West Bank—“and still look into his father’s eyes.”

You hear that, O you seekers of peace? settlements and apartheid can't stop being the ugly and virulent means of injustice that they are; an entire group of people with unsettled grievances and crushed national aspirations can't have their state; a six decades long suffering following ethnic cleansing and dispossession will not end; the right for self-determination is suspended: all this because an old prick with demagogic world view can't die soon enough.

Fuck you Benjamin. May your dad never die peacefully.