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“Defending settlements by appealing to Jewish historical trauma at the hands of the Nazis is morally despicable, politically inflammatory and factually misleading.”

It seems there is no line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t cross to defend settlements. Israeli law says settlers can’t steal Israeli-recognized Palestinian private land for their own purposes? Netanyahu leaves no principle of rule of law unchallenged in the effort to “legalize” the settlers’ actions. The boycott-divestment-sanctions (BDS) movement challenges Israel’s legitimacy? Netanyahu jumps on the chance to exploit the BDS threat to legitimize settlements, accusing anyone who differentiates between Israel and settlements of embracing BDS (and accusing Israel’s closest allies of adopting policies similar to those of the Nazis). The Palestinians – and virtually the entire world – argue that settlements are an obstacle to peace and will need to be removed? Last week, Netanyahu releases a video accusing them of supporting ethnic cleansing.  Lara Friedman, Times of Israel

Netanyahu’s claim of ‘ethnic cleansing’ sets a Guinness record for chutzpah
After years of fighting the loaded term, the prime minister is pushing it through the front door. If evacuating settlements for peace is a crime against humanity, then Begin and…
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Jonathan Zasloff
Jonathan Zasloff There is also this. Shalev: “Netanyahu asserts in his video that the nearly two million Arabs in Israel are living proof that there is no need to remove Jews from Judea and Samaria in order to achieve peace. Does Netanyahu mean that Jewish settlers will become Palestinian citizens, pay taxes to the government in East Jerusalem or Ramallah or that their children will sing, “Palestine is my revenge and the land of steadfastness” from the PLO anthem? Of course not. In his vision of peace, the Jewish settlers will continue to be Israeli citizens, will enjoy the protection of the Israel Defense Forces even if they reside deep inside Palestinian territories and will sing “As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning” out of Hatikvah. This doesn’t even bear a passing resemblance to the status of Arabs in Israel, but what won’t Netanyahu do in the service of false equivalents and cheap propaganda.”
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Benjamin Rodkin Benjamin Rodkin I doubt Bibi actually believes his own demagoguery, but if he thinks it’ll make good politics and distract from his scandals, he’ll do and say anything. He consistently puts his own interests ahead of that of the nation.
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Jonathan Zasloff Jonathan Zasloff Exactly. I used to think he was a liar. Now I’m beginning to think he’s just a bullshitter, in the technical Harry Frankfurt sense.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

 

Benjamin Rodkin Benjamin Rodkin Jonathan Zasloff Bibi is the greatest argument for term limits I have ever seen

Posted 12 Sep 2016 by theaveeditor in Israel/Palestine, Misc.

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