Allison, Don, and Noah discuss a fascinating new book that suggests the key to understanding Israeli politics may be the vast pool of resentment felt by the children of a generation of right-wingers who were cruelly excluded from the institutions of the state when it was finally established.

This notion sounds absurd, until you realize that these children include Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Shamir, Tzahi Hanegbi, Ehud Olmert, Tzippi Livni, Benny Begin, Yaakov Ahimeir, and literally dozens more political and cultural figures whose collective influence on Israel over the past 30 years (and to this day) is incalculably large.

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This is a segment from The “Fox News for the Jews” Edition.

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