Yvet, nyet
 | By Joe Millis
March 31, 2011 | Share |
Just like the National Front was stopped in the early 1970s and the BNP was trounced in last year's election, Israelis are going to have to tackle the rising tide of ultra-nationalism and racism emanating from its foreign minister Avigdor (Yvet) Lieberman. That is, of course, if he hasn't been charged with various alleged financial crimes.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/we-must-stop-the-nationalis...
Facing the supporters of the nationalist and racist Lieberman, the Zionist camp will assemble, the camp that wants Israel to remain Jewish and democratic, the camp of the middle class, which is fed up with Lieberman thinking Israel belongs to the wealthy and to the settlers.
It is true half the nation is afraid of missiles on Ben-Gurion International Airport but the other half is even more from afraid of having Lieberman as prime minister.
The American consultant Stan Greenberg, who lectured last week to the embryonic leftist group known as the Rubinger Roundtable, thinks that for the center-left to defeat the right it has to become an agent of change amd look opposite to everything the right symbolizes. Thus, an absolute rejection of the possibility Lieberman will already create a center-left government in the next election, with Aryeh Deri as the blocking gatekeeper.
When in the next election campaign Lieberman calls out in Russian "Da, Lieberman, da," it is necessary to stand up before him with an Israeli flag in hand and answer him in exactly the same language: "Yvet, nyet."
COMMENTS
31 March, 2011 - 10:42 Rate this: -1 points | Israel isn't racist, but it's going that way. Israel is losing support from American, British and other Jews because it is betraying itself. You could always go and live in Israel if you feel sickened by Jews who disagree with you. |
31 March, 2011 - 11:39 Rate this: 0 points | Why do you call Avi Yvet? Are you trying to emasculate him? |
31 March, 2011 - 11:49 Rate this: 0 points | Stop trying to spread it that Israel is losing support from the Jewish communities in the Western world. I am going there in April and all the hotels are booked up, and as the majority of my friends and family are Jewish, I can tell you first hand that we still have massive support for Israel. If you don't support Israel then that is your prerogative but you are morally wrong to try to turn manipulate other Jews to do the same. I hate nothing more than a self hater, not just in Judaism but in all walks of life. And please dont tell me that Israel is betraying itself, the only one betraying here is you Joe, but maybe loyalty isn't something you concern yourself with? |
31 March, 2011 - 11:56 Rate this: 0 points | I think you'll find Robert that the majority of those in the hotels are Israelis celebrating pesach or Christians who can afford it celebrating easter. The only self-haters I see are the ventriloquist dummies who parrot whatever the israeli government says without thinking about how those policies will lead to Israel's demise. Is that what you want? |
31 March, 2011 - 12:34 Rate this: 0 points | No Joe, your wrong. I do not merely act as a ventrioquist for the Israeli government, I form my opinion from extensive reading and base it on facts and figures, speaking of which, you made the following comment: "I think you'll find Robert that the majority of those in the hotels are Israelis celebrating pesach or Christians who can afford it celebrating easter" Please can you provide me the source of this comment, otherwise I will have to assume you made it up and cannot be taken serious. The 50 or so people i know personally going to TA for Pesach are all Jewish but please correct me if i am wrong. |
31 March, 2011 - 12:44 Rate this: 0 points | Of course there are some Jews going from this country. Those that can afford it in these straightened times. Israeli hotels are full of secular Israelis who like to celebrate Pesach away from home, mostly at hotels in Israel or Greece (Turkey used to be a favourite place...) Orthodox Israelis also like to go to hotels, because it means they don't have to so massive cleaning and buying. |
31 March, 2011 - 13:56 Rate this: 0 points | Oh Joe I am sorry this is another area where you had better retire. Quoting articles from that radical rag known as "Haaretz" which besides having a dwindling readership has a journalistic line-up replete with Israel bashers (one of whom who actually lives in Ramallah) and fringe lunatics and makes no secret that it hates any politician who comes from any point to the right of extreme left (which presumably makes Mr Lieberman almost off the scale). Quite frankly most israelis including a considerable number from the left consider haaretz to be one big joke (see http://cifwatch.com/2010/06/16/a-reply-to-linda-grant-what-haaretz-would...) which is probably why the BBC likes quoting from it so often. |
31 March, 2011 - 14:00 Rate this: 0 points | Just because you don't agree with Haaretz, Advi3er, doesn't make it radical. I find it quite conservative and staid. And when you say replete with Israel bashers, do you mean Moshe Arens, Yisrael Harel, Shlomo Avineri, Yair Sheleg and Avi Shavit (a friend of Bibi's)? |
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Robert Snodgrass
31 March, 2011 - 10:37
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At least Lieberman has a pair of balls Joe, which is more than can be said about you. Jews like you and Kaufman make me sick.
All you talk about is how Israel has no support and is racist, blah blah blah. You just go on and on like a broken record, abusing your privileges as a blogger. You flood this section every day with half a dozen blogs saying the same thing. There’s a reason why people hardly comment on them and it’s because you don’t interest them. You’re irrelevant