Hebron is a place full of both religious history and new history in the making. Hebron has been a site of extreme violence and is a center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Among this violence, there is beauty and history to be found in sites like the Cave of the Patriarchs. Likud-France went to visit Hebron on August 10th, to show their support for the pioneers of the region, and to pay their respects to some of the holiest sites.

Over 700 French Zionists were led by Jacques Kupfer, CEO of Likud-France and his son, Benjamin Kupfer. The intense Zionist spirit and emotions of the group was to be seen and heard all over Hebron. Read more…

As founder of the Revisionist Movement and Betar, the Zionist youth movement, Ze’ev Jabotinsky devoted his life to establishing a strong Jewish homeland. He created both the Irgun, a militant underground Zionist organization, and the NZO (New Zionist Organization), leading to the development of Likud. The 70th anniversary of Jabotinsky’s death was memorialized on July 11th at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Read more…

Questions and Answers

1. Why not let the flotilla pass through to Gaza?

Because sovereign countries have rights to blockade countries/areas that are perceived as a threat to its citizens and territory.

Any foreign element that would try to break that blockade would rightfully be prevented to reach the blockaded territory. (see below)

What actually is Gaza? It is a territory controlled by Hamas – an organization internationally recognized as a terrorist body and banned by the Western World. They have launched hundreds of missiles against Israeli civilian population, used their own population as human shields, killed Palestinians in Gaza because they belong to the wrong camp – in short the western dream of a ‘liberal democracy’. What does that say about their human rights record, about their value for human life? Or should they be commended for being good in “talking the Western talk” because they now that there are those who are ready to listen?

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Herzl and the current dilemmas

By Dr. Gerardo Stuczynski

President of COSLA the Latin American Zionist Federation

Member of the Expanded Zionist Executive

The prevailing anti-Semitism in Europe at the end of the XIXth century transformed Theodor Herzl’s life and the fate of the Jews forever.

While the crowd screamed euphorically “death to the Jews” Herzl heard the call of his people in the liberal and cultivated France. These people with a great past, yet with no foreseeable future, were led by this bearded modern Moses.

However, his dream came true late. Not only because like Moses he could not see the culmination of his work with his own eyes, but because his obsession had been to save his people. He did not foresee the gas chambers, but he did foresee the destruction that he could not manage to prevent.

 In a way, Zionism always existed. From the first exile, people felt homesickness, a need to return, a religious or mystic feeling, but there was not a concrete political agenda.

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