Jabotinsky’s Revisionists saw 1930s fascist Italy as a political prototype

Evidence

In finding in Italy a viable model for the Israeli Right, an alternative to what he saw as the pro-Arab and Western tendencies that have plagued the Israeli intellectual and political establishment, Ha-Ivry was echoing the viewpoint of his ideological forefathers in the Revisionist movement. The Revisionists in the 1930s, under the leadership of Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky, were fascinated with Italy and, not foreseeing the terrible fate of many Italian Jews a decade later, viewed the Italian leadership of their time both as a potential ally and prototype. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 530

Categorization

• QUESTION: How exactly did the Revisionists frame Mussolini’s Italy as ‘both potential ally and prototype’ — what specific institutions or policies did they want to emulate?
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