Yep, this is one of my favorite political life forms - a misguided American who drops in to Israel for a visit and lends happily herself to a bit of staged propaganda deliberately designed to harm US foreign policy interests.

Ms. Benosf, far from the comfy confines of suburban NJ, attempts to prove her Likudist cred - to whom we wonder? and to what ends? - with a nice little photo op.  Ah, the stupidity, the stupidity.  We're not quite sure if we have a strong enough case to mutter, Kurz-like "the treason, the treason."

But, will Robin put her sheckels where her [very likely] immense mouth is, and make a real commitment, emigrate to Israel, and formally renounce her US citizenship?  That way she can be toe-to-toe and go head-to-head with those hummus-eating, suicide/homicide/matrydom bombing Pally terrorist subhumans?

No, we suspect that you'd have an easier time prying rifles and shotguns from the hands of the NRA's board of directors than getting Benosf to give up her US passport.  She's happy at the end of the day to be safe in the land of carcinogenic petrochemical refineries, toxic waste dumps, cheesy strip malls and Mafioso burial grounds [that's NJ to the uninitiated] No stray shootings and unexpected violence in NJ for Robin, as long as she stays out of Newark, Paterson, Camden and a few other unfortunate Garden State urban centers.


No doubt Ms. Benost, having made her point, is booked onto the first available flight back to the good old safe USA.  Soon enough she'll be regailing her  cronies with tales about how she stuck it to Obama, struck a blow against Pally terrorism, and other  political fabulisms which will inflate her self-image.  Meanwhile, others will pay the real price for Benosf's not-exactly inspired bit of political theatre.

Wonder if she was inspired by Saul Alinsky?  Or maybe even Abbie Hoffman? It's unlikely she was inspired by her responsibilities as an American citizen.  No, the duties incumbent upon performing that role are for chumps and suckers it seems, chumps and suckers with undevided and unconfused loyalties.

Paul Hollander wrote two great books which dealt with dupes and stooges like Benosf: "Political Pilgims" [1981] and "Anti-Americanism" [1992].  Sadly, Hollander dealt only with western, and almost entirely American and European, fans of various leftist/Marxist/Leninist/Maoist/collectivist political "experiments."  Would be that some brave scholar would extend Hollander's analysis to the willing dupes and stooges of Israeli zionism?

BTW, they're both excellent books and I recommend them highly.

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