Begin was the best proof that Israel’s critics needed that the Zionist revolution, although it created a state out of the ashes of the Holocaust, had failed to eradicate the collective self-image of the Jew and the Israeli as victim. Netanyahu seals the image of Israel as a nation totally incapable of breaking out of the prison of its past.
如果以色列批评家需要证明犹太复国主义虽然在大屠杀的灰烬中创立了犹太国，但却无法根除将犹太人和以色列视为牺牲品的集体自我认知的话，那么贝京无疑是最好的例子。 内塔尼亚胡为以色列的形象打下了烙印，证明以色列根本无法摆脱过去的束缚。