Two days ago Israel’s foreign minister called for beheading Arab citizens of Israel who are “against us.” Haaretz did the story yesterday. So did Newsweek.
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Arab citizens who are not loyal to the state of Israel should have their heads “chopped off with an axe”.
The minister, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and an outspoken critic of Israel’s Arab population, made the controversial remarks on Sunday in a speech to an election rally held in the western Israeli city of Herzliya ahead of the March 17 vote.
“Those who are with us deserve everything, but those who are against us deserve to have their heads chopped off with an axe,” the ultra-nationalist politician said.
The incitement resulted in a call to behead Haneen Zoabi, the outspoken Palestinian member of Knesset, as reported by this Arabic site and (translated by the new head of the US Committee to End the Occupation, Yousef Munayyer):
Lara Friedman of Peace Now has been pushing the story, including Lieberman’s call for “transfer,” or ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. “Not the Onion,” she says.
But this story is no joke at all. What would happen if a Palestinian politician called for beheading some Jews? How loudly would our media decry such statements?
This morning the New York Times had still not covered the story.
National Public Radio has given Lieberman a platform in the past. NPR host Robert Siegel also spent an hour interviewing Lieberman at the Brookings institution. Shouldn’t NPR be covering Lieberman’s latest views? Radio silence.
It’s fucking disgusting and revolting.
People cannot only talk about the complicity of the American government in Israeli Apartheid, we have got to talk about the persistent campaign in the MSM to cover up the crimes, too.
Apartheid SA was treated much more harshly.
One Israeli official called for Israeli soldiers to send bombs into densely populated areas in Gaza.
A former PM’s son called for Gaza to be bombed back to the stone age.
A top Rabbi in Israel, a rabid hater, called for the annihilation of the Palestinians, he called them evil and damnable (I think he was describing himself).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm
A deputy speaker in Israel called for Palestinians to be in concentration camps, and that they should be exterminated.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/concentrate-and-exterminate-israel-parliament-deputy-speakers-gaza-genocide-plan
So all that hatred spewed, and yet we hear NOTHING about it, no reference, or reminder of just how vicious and nazi like these zionists are, in the media. So let’s not expect this show of hatred to make it in the US media.
How many times do we hear about about Israel’s neighbors wanting them “wiped off the map”?
Too many times to mention (but it is mentioned on a daily basis by hasbarats, members of congress, the warmonger himself, Beebs, the zionist media, and all loyal minions of Israel).
Who really is being wiped off the map today? That would be the Palestinians. That too, is never mentioned by the media, nor reference to the military occupation and illegal settlements.
This little exercise in gross incitement is virtually unheard of in MSM Europa.
I called the Irish times and gave them the details so will have to wait until tomorrow to see if they print it.Not holding my breath though.As I pointed out to a IT rep , if an Arab had made such a remark about Jews, he and I would never have needed to talk.It would have graced the front pages of every news rag in the EU.
It’s not serious, of course. The story is that this comes from the same place as those extreme statements from Iranian leaders, and Hezbollah leader Nassrallah, that Goldberg collected in the Atlantic the other day. Lieberman’s statement should be viewed in the same light, that is it should not be taken too literally. Statements like that on all sides should be properly ignored and not be allowed to torpedo the serious business of working on peace.
“Lieberman’s statement should be viewed in the same light, that is it should not be taken too literally.”
Newsweek quotes some people who also took him too seriously.
“A number of former Israeli diplomats, including former Israeli ambassador to South Africa, Alon Liel, and former ambassador to France, Daniel Shek, publicly condemned Lieberman’s incendiary remarks.
“Israel’s number-one diplomat is waving an axe over the heads of citizens of the country that he represents, and in the same breath, he preaches to the whole world about fighting antisemitism,” the diplomats told The Jerusalem Post.”
He’s not some half drunk crank in a bar, he’s the frickin’ foreign minister.