[Nachum]

He may only have been the "son of" Rabbi Abraham Kook - the first chief rabbi of Palestine and considered the spirit of religious Zionism - but he turned his father's abstract and somewhat metaphysical teachings into a political ideology, which serves as the basis for the right wing and settler movement.

I would argue that this assertion is not true. The more probably truth is that both the son and father were activists. The establishment of the Balfour declarations and the creation of the original colonies in Israel (by the father) were hardly different than the support of the settlers in Judea and Samaria (by the son).

[Phil V.]

I’m surprised one can still post to this antique!