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Related: About this forumIsraeli leaders' obscene reaction to the Brussels murders
http://972mag.com/israeli-leaders-obscene-reaction-to-the-brussels-murders/91405/Prime Minister Netanyahu said the killings were caused by ceaseless incitement against Jews and their state. On European soil, tales and falsehoods against the State of Israel continue to be heard
Far-right religious party leader Naftali Bennett made roughly the same point on his Facebook page: In this generation anti-Semitism has disguised itself as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist. Why are there people who hate the Jews? That is just the way it is. Why are there people who hate Israel? That is just the way it is.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman singled out the BDS movement for blame. Its the result on the ground of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement, among other things in calls to boycott Israel and Israeli products, in anti-Israel activities in international forums and in an automatic, one-sided anti-Israel position.
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If Netanyahu, Bennett and Liberman had blamed the murders on the true, indisputable sources of violent Jew-hatred today jihadism and neo-Nazism they would have been telling the truth, which is always a public service, and also would have shown respect for the victims. But by using the murders as an opportunity to strengthen their unholy cause by slandering its opponents, by blaming those opponents for the murders, theyve done something obscene.
Far-right religious party leader Naftali Bennett made roughly the same point on his Facebook page: In this generation anti-Semitism has disguised itself as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist. Why are there people who hate the Jews? That is just the way it is. Why are there people who hate Israel? That is just the way it is.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman singled out the BDS movement for blame. Its the result on the ground of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement, among other things in calls to boycott Israel and Israeli products, in anti-Israel activities in international forums and in an automatic, one-sided anti-Israel position.
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If Netanyahu, Bennett and Liberman had blamed the murders on the true, indisputable sources of violent Jew-hatred today jihadism and neo-Nazism they would have been telling the truth, which is always a public service, and also would have shown respect for the victims. But by using the murders as an opportunity to strengthen their unholy cause by slandering its opponents, by blaming those opponents for the murders, theyve done something obscene.
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Israeli leaders' obscene reaction to the Brussels murders (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
May 2014
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Murder is ghastly reprehensible no matter who is the victim, but the takeaway between
R. Daneel Olivaw
May 2014
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. What's that you say?
Zionists are exploiting murdered Jews for their own political gain? Who could ever imagine?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)2. Murder is ghastly reprehensible no matter who is the victim, but the takeaway between
Brussles and Betunia is that while one is condemned the other is glossed over and the old scapegoats are brought out: The Palestinians are faking their deaths, the Palestinians shot their own, the IDF is the most benevolent apartheid force in the world.
One atrocity is condemned, the other atrocity is buried.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. They love to wave the bloody shirt, even when it's not their shirt. nt