Jabotinsky Memorial Service

Jewish Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) are separated by an empty chair as they attend a memorial service for Zeev Jabotinsky, Zionist leader and founder of the Jewish right-wing ideology, at a cemetery in Jerusalem, on 31 July 2008.

What is interesting about this particular photograph is the body language between Netanyahu and Olmert, this alone speaks volumes.

While I do not approve of Zionism because of the harm it created towards the Jewish people, this particular scene between these two men was sure to overshadow this service and apparently, being one of those situations where certain people had to attend.

While I know little about Zeev Jabotinsky, he did appear to be a man of some contradictions’ towards what one usually understood about the Zionist movement. But it doesn’t, change my view of this movement; because it had came close to destroying the Jewish people.