Unbelievable.This fills my eyes with tears. Jews are coming home. Two years after Gaza, Goldstone is resonating and the blood can’t be washed away. A beautiful moment in the moral arc of the universe. Gaza can’t be forgotten. Israel will be changed by this, so will the lobby… Remember that the Defense Minister is the charming man who hoodooed Bill Clinton and whose knee Barack Obama sat at, months after the Gaza massacre, in which 300-400 children were killed and hundreds more maimed and every child in the strip terrorized/traumatized. From Ynet:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke before an audience Tuesday as a guest speaker in an Iran seminar held in the Tel Aviv University. Barak discussed the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and the Middle East’s political-security state but was repeatedly interrupted by protestors who waved pictures of Palestinian victims. The protestors shouted “You murder children in Gaza” and called Barak “a phony liar.”
The audience was mainly comprised of senior officials in the security establishment as well as Israeli and foreign academics. The protestors were quickly removed from the hall by Barak’s and the university’s security guards. The minister later said he did not see fit to respond to the claims.
Update: Please note Tom Pessah’s comment below that the protesters included at least one Palestinian Israeli.
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