I was thinking about writing a musical piece about Menachem Begin. I would dedicate it "to the memory of a once great man".
Begin was a great man, in my opinion, but he had a weakness in him. His story is a tragic one. He knew what arabs were and he fought for Israeli sovereignty. He ordered the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility, much to the horror and condemnation of the rest of the world. But ultimately, he allowed himself to be pressured by American Jews to give up the Sinai to Egypt.
As great as he could have remained, that spoiled it. Camp David is where we learned that Begin was an empty shell. This also (to me) dispelled any notion of the Likud being a right wing political party.