Nahum Barnea in Yedioth Ahronoth. Can’t find it online yet:
Grand Park is the most luxurious hotel in Ramallah. On Sunday afternoon, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad held a press conference there. About 20 local reporters, security people, Fayyad, US Senator Joe Lieberman and others from a US congressional delegation, crowded into a small room at the end of a corridor. …
The right to the first question was given to Ha’aretz reporter Amira Hass…. She asked Lieberman how he, as a Jew, could accept Israel’s discriminatory attitude toward minorities.
Both felt awkward. Lieberman is not used to having his origins thrown at him. “What could I say,” he told me afterwards with a sad smile. “I said I supported the establishment of two states.”
That doesn’t answer the question, Joe. In a sense, it is the only question. In 1964 the United States Democratic Party presidential nomination procedures excluded black delegates from Mississippi. It was a landmark outrage. It fed the civil rights movement. It led to your nomination to be vice president and Barack Obama’s to be president.
Today Israel’s process for creating a new government excludes Arab parties on a racial basis. Where’s the outrage?
