Lieberman and the Soviet way
 | By Joe Millis
July 19, 2011 | Share |
A good riposte from Shlomo Gazit, a former head of Israel's military intelligence (an oxymoron?), to the Soviet educated foreign minister Yvet Lieberman, who believes any one against him is a terrorist, or someone who aids terrorists.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/yes-mr-lieberman-i-m-a-prou...
Yesterday something shocking happened. A respectable minister in the Israeli government, the foreign minister, the man who heads the Yisrael Beitenu party, called the organization of whose public council I am a member, Yesh Din, a terrorist organization - 69 years after the British Mandatory government defined me as a terrorist.
At the time I considered the epithet attached to me by the Mandatory government a badge of honor. Today I see the same title, which this time was attached to me by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, as a new badge of honor. I believe that the activity of Yesh Din deserves a medal. I see our activity as a crucial attempt to save the State of Israel from becoming an apartheid regime.
The foreign minister should have been the first to understand that. Doesn't he understand that a person who condemns the activity of Yesh Din is in effect announcing a deliberate intention to maintain a miscarriage of justice, a deliberate intention to maintain separate systems of law and justice for Jews and Arabs? Under these circumstances, Mr. Lieberman, I'm proud to be called a "terrorist" by you.
It's a shame that Israel doesn't deal properly with real Jewish terrorists, those of the settler Price Tag movement who vandalise mosques, tear down olive trees and in some cases open fire on Palestinians. But then, they are only doing what the Israeli government allows them to do so why would the Netanyahu-Lieberman government do anything against them?
COMMENTS
20 July, 2011 - 09:43 Rate this: -10 points | millis, I'll ask you again, as you have consistently failed to answer - just who exactly is Israel supposed to give Judea and Samaria to? |
20 July, 2011 - 10:42 Rate this: -10 points | Good at awarding minus points - not so good at engaging in any intelligible way. What a loser. |
20 July, 2011 - 13:34 Rate this: -1 points | A registered blogger can create a new blog outside of office hours. He or she cannot comment on an existing blog outside of office hours. |
20 July, 2011 - 16:17 Rate this: 0 points | Joe there are two excellent comments on the "Anti-Boycott " Law in the Jerusalem Post today - both against it in principle. I know you are not a fan of Mr Liebler but please read this one by Gil Troy I happen to agree with most of what he says - surprise surprise - I think after careful consideration you will too! http://blogs.jpost.com/content/doubly-disgusted-boycott-bill-and-its-hys... |
20 July, 2011 - 16:22 Rate this: 0 points | By the way there would be no need for price tag if the Arabs allowed the Jews to peaceably settle the land that was awarded to them by the League of Nations and confirmed on the foundation of the United Nations. Secondly you have never explained why if it was legal for Jews to settle and build homes before 1948 in east Jerusalem it is according to you illegal now. |
20 July, 2011 - 17:17 Rate this: -1 points | Anyway, I've got a flight to catch to Avigdor Dzugashvili's adopted country (El Al's red eye). I'll be at the Supermarket on Hapalmach Street on Friday morning at around 9 and at the Supersol on Agron Street an hour or so later. Lehit. |
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20 July, 2011 - 09:43
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Here we go again - millis and his disgusting comparisons between Israel and the USSR - equivalent to comparing Israel to the Nazis. This is a sure sign of moral depravity and intellectual failure.
And all the while accusing fellow Jews of being "terrorists"...whilst he has nothing to say about the genocidal, racist poicies of the Palestinians, whethre under the guise of Fatah or Hamas (now united in a common antisemitic pact).