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Two days ago Israels 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 Israels 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 Liebermans 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. Shouldnt NPR be covering Liebermans latest views? Radio silence. -
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Who exactly is in charge over there?
Creeping fascism in America....and Israel.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)The hot air inside it is obviously the only thing that keeps his body upright.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)malthaussen
(17,204 posts)It's more Levitical.
-- Mal
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)global media outlets are owned by people sympathetic to Israel? In the early history of country-wide, then world-wide, communications and entertainment, who bankrolled, purchased, and controlled the media? Could that have been people sympathetic to Israel?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Maybe we can have them speak before our congress too.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)on I/P why they won't likely do it. So by that presumption I stop expecting nor
demanding better.
On edit: At least Newsweek covered it...just an fyi.