Israel – and particularly #Likud – have a complicated relationship with their Middle Eastern identity.

"Iraqi! Ashkenazi! Jews! Brothers! Warriors!" is a line from the most famous Likud speech, by the former Irgun command.

It is about a young man and a teenage boy who died in 1947 (in a way that cannot be described in detail on YouTube). The Iraqi was a #Kurdish immigrant, the Ashkenazi, and the other #Ashkenazi involved in that incident, were both born in Palestine

The former Irgun commander was making a speech praising Arab Jews (albeit not by that name) and that one Kurd who fought for the #Irgun and #Lehi

But when #Netanyahu made a speech about the same pair in 2010 both Arab Israeli and Sephardic #Knesset members heckled him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuxruHIABo&lc=Ugx68s3yS5yCKKEk1uV4AaABAg&ab_channel=IndieNile this started as a response to #IndieNile

cc @kmpiw@mastodon.social @kmpiw@kolektiva.social @kmpiw@aus.social @israel @palestine

#IraqiAshkenaziJewsBrothersWarriors #MenachemBegin #Samson1947 #Begin1981 #Palestine #Israel