![]() | By gordon bennett
January 5, 2010 | Share |
Welcome back to Blighty, Your Excellency. The weather may be brass monkeys, but you mast be really pleased to be back from the tongue-lashing you and your fellow lily-livered Israeli diplomats received from your boss, the Foreign Minister Yvet Lieberman. Just remember, no more turning of the other cheek, no more appeasement. As if...
Meanwhile, here are a few points to ponder.
Israel is supposed to be a democracy, right? -- the only one in the Middle East, in fact. So how come the country you represent wants to introduce laws that will prevent the 25 per cent of the population who aren't Jewish from purchasing land? Not very democratic, that.
Then there's the loyalty law. I don't know about you, but the proposal sounds to me awfully like Article 59 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution. Any chance it has something to do with the fact that Mr Leiberman grew up in Moldova, part of said former workers' paradise. Perish the thought.
I was at Limmud last week. It was a shame you or a member of your staff weren't there to hear what many British Jews are saying about Israel. It's no longer a source of solidarity and pride, but rather one of division and embarrassment. Is it really necessary to build yet more houses for settlers in Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem? Kind of kills the idea of no unilateral moves or no preconditions in talks with the Palestinians. And what about the moratorium -- that's a joke, isn't it? There's a ke'ilu moratorium (as you would say in Israel). It's all a farcical facade, because public works in the settlements continue and roads are still being built for colonists only.
Is it really necessary to get Israel's megaphones to treat every bit of criticism as anti-Semitism? This was amply displayed on this website, when one of them even stooped to Holocaust revisionism because he didn't agree with one of Israel's many Jewish critics.
All in all, Your Excellency, I know you have a tough job, but bear in mind that for many of us, Yisrael is no longer Beiteinu.
G. Bennett


Jonathan Hoffman
5 January, 2010 - 14:36
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Dear Ambassador Prosor
You must understand that this tr^ll is a lier since while insisting he is called Gordon Bennet (or Bennett, he can never decide) you will not find him if you Google - and he refuses to provide a URL to prove he exists.
Now let's correct the farrago of lies above:
1. As you know, the proposed law to which this lying tr^ll refers permits the state to sell land to so-called “community settlements,” which would, in turn, have the right to determine what persons have the right to buy property and live in their communities. Many such community settlements exist in Israel: Jewish, non-Jewish and mixed.
2. The proposal to change the MKs loyalty oath simply replaces 'state of israel and its laws' by allefiance to the 'Jewish democratic state'. Only haters like this tr^ll can take objection to that.
3. By "Holocaust revisionism" he is being libellous. Note he is cautious not to mention any names. The background is here.
http://thejc.com/blogpost/using-bogus-survivors-vilify-israel
Again he is proved to be a lier, but we knew that.
Your Excellency, these tr^lls make a lot of noise but they are "empty vessels signifying nothing" - and fortunately there are very few of them.
Kind regards
Jonathan