From Haaretz's amazing story on the appeal that rightwing extremist Avigdor Lieberman holds for Israeli youth. Please someone tell me why this is not in the American press, while Haaretz cries out for our help?
[One youth says,] "This country has needed a dictatorship for a long time already.
But I'm not talking about an extreme dictatorship. We need someone who
can put things in order. Lieberman is the only one who speaks the
truth." Adds Edan Ivanov, an 18 year old... "We have a problem: Upper Nazareth is surrounded by
minorities. There are lots of incidents with them. Women are scared to
walk in the streets, and people are afraid they'll be stabbed. No one
knows what to do about it at this point. There are people who live here
and during a war they act as a fifth column. It will only be possible
to make peace with them after we make war."
Alex Miller, 32-year-old member of the Knesset living in the West Bank:
"Loyalty is the most burning issue for the youth.
They're about to go in the army and therefore national honor is
important to them. They want someone whose word is good, who stands
behind his principles. Avigdor Lieberman projects strength." ...
Sergei Leibliyanich, a senior, draws a connection
between the preparation for military service in school and student
support for the right: "It gives us motivation against the Arabs. You
want to enlist in the army so you can stick it to them. The preparation
gives you the motivation to stick it to the Arabs and we want to elect
someone who'll do that. I like Lieberman's thinking about the Arabs.
Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] doesn't want to go as far."
Miriam Darmoni-Sharvit, education policy-maker:
In my daughter's class, the kids told a joke that
went something like: 'How long does it take an Arab woman to get rid of
the trash? Nine months,' and the teacher didn't stop or say anything to
them about it."
Jeff Blankfort comments: This is very scary, but not surprising. Is there any other term for it but "Nazification?" Back in October 1981, I had a letter in the Nation commenting on an article by Chris Hitchens on Kahane, that the racist rabbi was just "a tip of the iceberg." The iceberg has now emerged.
Wonder how the Horst Wessel song sounds in Hebrew?
Those kids grow up thinking the same number of Palestinans
resided in Israel at the end of 1948 as resided there in early 1947.
That's their education system in a nutshell.
We need a new Mosse to write a book on Israeli culture.
From the Haaretz article, An Israeli defines a "Good Arab"
By the way, there are also a lot of Arabs who come with us to demonstrations and shout 'Death to the Arabs,' meaning 'death to everyone except me.'"
How nice.
So has Jeff Blankfort retracted his full throated support of Barbara Lubin now that she admitted she lied?
This idiocy about Nazification is just that, idiocy. The kid was wrong to tell a racist joke, but that doesn't mean Jews are Nazis. That is so obvious that I can't f-ing believe that even needs to be said.
Some kid tells a racist joke and because the kid is Jewish Jeff "KKK" Blankfort says the Jews are Nazis. Because no American ever told a racist joke about, well, just about any race you'd care to mention. No Englishman ever told a racist joke about Scots or Irishmen, or Pakistanis. No Palestinian kid ever told a racist joke about Jews, in a Palestinian schools named after a suicide bomber.
Are all those countries and people "Nazis"? Or is Jeff Blankbrain just an idiot?
No its that jeff Blankfort is an idiot.
@ Thom
I think the significance is not the joke, but rather that an open advocate of ethnic cleansing and race laws is winning an election and has so many followers. Nobody is saying there are gas chambers in Gaza. But the similarity to Germany circa 1937 is hard to miss.
Yes, there are racists in Palestine, but they don't have nukes whereas the racists in Israel do and will soon have their finger on the switch.
FROM CHRIS BEREL: "It may have been in out (sic) national interest to side with Nazi Germany. But most moral nations put aside national interest to do the right thing."
FROM ME:
Shamir proposes an alliance with the Nazis
“As late as 1941, the Zionist group LEHI, one of whose leaders, Yitzhak
Shamir, was later to become a prime minister of Israel, approached the Nazis, using the name of its parent organization, the Irgun (NMO)…[Their proposal stated:] ‘The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis and bound by a treaty with the German Reich would be in the interests of strengthening the future German nation of power in the Near East… The NMO in Palestine offers to take an active part in the war on Germany’s side’….The Nazis rejected this proposal for an alliance because, it is reported, they considered LEHI’s military power ‘negligable.’ ” Allan Brownfield, “The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs”, July/August 1998.
SOURCE: "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict" – Third Edition
(PUBLISHED BY JEWS FOR JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST)
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Again with Mr. Pasty. You are one lazy racist Dick.
I think the significance is not the joke, but rather that an open advocate of ethnic cleansing and race laws is winning an election and has so many followers. Nobody is saying there are gas chambers in Gaza. But the similarity to Germany circa 1937 is hard to miss.
Pardon me, but please post the link where Jews were murdering Germans via missles and suicide bombings in the 1930's?
That's right, Jews saved their terrorism for the formation of the Jewish State.
Fuck you sanctimonious freaks.
Of course they did. You almost make Weiss appear sane.
Again with Mr. Pasty. You are one lazy racist Dick.
Yes, no facts please. It gets the likes of Thom and Berel all agitated. And when they're agitated, the red jello and whipped cream that the pretty nurses bring just doesn't taste as sweet.