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For the sake of the young generation and for those who forgot: On October 29, 1956 a group of 11 Border Guard police officers shot to death 49 Arab citizens, including women and children, and wounded 13 at the outskirts of Kfar Qassem.
The irony of fate is that while marking 50 years since the massacre, again racism has the upper hand and Avigdor Lieberman joins the government - a politician who rejects Arab citizens' civil rights and calsl for expelling them from the country.
Another irony of fate: Upon entering the Olmert government, Lieberman declared that it is essential to escalate the campaign against the axis of evil (Iran and other countries), so that under the cover of such escalation he would be able to implement his racist plan to remove tens of thousands of Arab citizens from the country.
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Israeli minister resigns over addition of extreme-right party
Israeli Science, Technology, Culture and Sports Minister Ophir Pines-Paz announced his resignation on Monday, Israel's newspaper Ha'aretz reported on its website.
His resignation came shortly after the cabinet approved the entry of Avigdor Lieberman and its extreme-right party Yisrael Beiteinu into the government.
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Now Lieberman is a deputy prime minister of Israel in charge of strategic threats, specifically Iran and its nuclear ambitions.
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Lieberman says what many people think. His racism and extreme nationalism are already out of the closet, while among many others, those qualities are still concealed deep within, even though they operate according to their spirit. They have no moral advantage over Lieberman. An openly racist and extreme nationalist is preferable to a closet racist and extreme nationalist.
Lieberman also has a well-thought-out plan for the future, as opposed to Ehud Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu or Shimon Peres, of whom no one (including they themselves, apparently) has a clue about what they want to do tomorrow morning. Lieberman might sound extremist to innocent ears or to those feigning innocence, but on many issues he is saying precisely what Israel is doing.
Back in 2001, Lieberman, as minister of national infrastructure, publicized his canton plan. He suggested then the division of the West Bank into four cantons, without a central Palestinian government or possibility of traveling between them. This is precisely what Israel is doing in practice, crushing the fabric of life in the territories through a cruel physical separation between each region. Even without Lieberman, a resident of Nablus who wants to visit his son in Hebron encounters almost impenetrable obstacles and of visiting his son in Gaza, he can only dream.
When Lieberman put forward his proposal, there were those who became enraged; when the IDF implements these things, almost no one says a word. Could it be that a Lieberman who speaks the truth is better than an Olmert government that misleads?
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He smelled the increasing weakness of the faltering government, which is quickly losing the faith of the public, and decided this was the time to enter the coalition and take over its agenda (strategy minister) and later, take over the government itself.
Lieberman is the punishment for the government's sins: The Lebanon adventure, the elimination of peace negotiations, the policy of deepening social gaps, and neglecting growing sectors of Israeli society while marginalizing them.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has sealed an agreement to bring into his government Israel's answer to Benito Mussolini. This new partner, Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Is Our Home) Party, has called for "transferring" Arab Israelis out of Israel, and bombing both Cairo and Tehran. An emigré from Russian Moldava in 1978, Lieberman also reputedly has ties to the Russian Mafia.
Slated to become Israel's "Minister in charge of strategic questions," Lieberman will be responsible for "coordinating" Israel's policy towards Iran. His entry into the government is widely seen as a signal that Israel would attack Iran, as Israel devolves into a full-fledged fascist state.
But make no mistake: It is not the Israeli Prime Minister who is putting Israel on the road to fascism, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheneyand the powerful financial interests who stand behind him. Hell-bent on a new war against Iran, Cheney wants to ensure that he can use Israel as his hand-grenade in his plans for a new Mideast war. According to Israeli intelligence sources, since the end of the Lebanon war, Cheney and his neo-con allies have been working to bring into power their real candidate as Israel's Mussolini, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, chairman of the Likud Party and protégé of U.S. synarchist George Shultz.
Referring to Netanyahu as Cheney's "high commissioner to Israel," one source told EIR that the Lieberman move is a desperate attempt by Olmert to block Netanyahu from coming to power. This same source, who is close to the Labor Party, said: "Lieberman is a fascist, and Olmert is a cynical politician who would do anything for self survival. They belong together. Olmert knows that Cheney wants to bring Netanyahu into power, but without Lieberman's party, it would not be possible to bring down Olmert, at least for another few months." This source called for the Labor Party to pull out of the government.
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In addition to espousing ethnic cleansing, Lieberman has a long history of inciting discrimination, hatred and violence against Palestinians within the Jewish state and living under Israeli military occupation in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. When he served as minister of transport in a previous government, Lieberman called for all Palestinian prisoners held by the Israeli occupation authorities to be drowned in the Dead Sea and offered to provide the buses ("Lieberman blasted for suggesting drowning Palestinian prisoners," Ha'aretz, July 11, 2002). He has proposed to strip the citizenship of, and expel any Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to sign a loyalty oath to the Jewish Zionist state ("A Jewish demographic state," Ha'aretz, June 28, 2002).
In 2002, Lieberman declared, "I would not hesitate to send the Israeli army into all of Area A [the area of the West Bank ostensibly under Palestinian Authority control] for 48 hours. Destroy the foundation of all the authority's military infrastructure, all of the police buildings, the arsenals, all the posts of the security forces... not leave one stone on another. Destroy everything." He also suggested to the Israeli cabinet that the air force systematically bomb all the commercial centers, gas stations and banks in the occupied territories (The Independent, March 7, 2002). And, he has proposed bombing Egypt's Aswan Dam, despite that country's peace treaty with Israel since 1979. What will he propose to do to Iran?
Hebrew University professor Ze'ev Sternhell, a leading Israeli academic specialist on fascism and totalitarianism, was quoted by the Scotsman newspaper as terming Lieberman "perhaps the most dangerous politician in the history of the state of Israel."
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He said: “The big issue now is the Iranian threat, and I don't want to think about what would happen in a year or two if we don't deal with it now."
US JEWISH groups, always quick - as we should be - to denounce Arab, European or American politicians who wear their bigotry on their sleeve have now fallen silent. When it comes to an Israeli populist provocateur with a long, documented record of chauvinism and hate, our community has nothing to say.
Applying the lessons of our history, we have assumed a proud role in American society of exposing and condemning intolerance. We pursue anti-Semites and bigots, immigrant-haters and homophobes, white- supremacists, sexists and xenophobes, whether here, in Europe or in the Arab world. But when a man who has called for the execution of his fellow Knesset members - Arab legislators who met with Hamas leaders - becomes the deputy prime minister of Israel, we'd rather look the other way.
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Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Israel copy the Russian offensive in Chechnya, Dichter said, "This is not Russia and Gaza is not Chechnya."
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Peretz Unwilling to Accept Lieberman’s Statements Concerning the Arabs
17:58 Nov 06, '06 / 15 Cheshvan 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Amir Peretz (Labor) on Monday stated he is unwilling to permit recent statements made by Minister of Strategic Planning Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) pertaining to Israeli Arabs to pass.
Lieberman proposed separating Israel's Jews and Arabs the same way Turkish and Greek Cypriots are split. He also said there was a problem with minorities in general around the world.
Peretz announced that the Labor Party will be the “fortified wall” that will protect and defend the rights of the citizens of the country.
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Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's deputy prime minister, responded that Israel would kill Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar, both of Hamas, if the 20-year-old soldier is not released unharmed. A deal that would free roughly 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit is in the works.
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Originally posted by djohnsto77
Oh yeah, this is a really unbiased news article.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Oh yeah, this is a really unbiased news article.
Anyhow, I hope Israel nukes Iran back into a paleolithic society, since that's their mindset anyway.
Enter Avigdor Lieberman, head of Israel’s Yisrael Beiteinu political party and quite possibly the chief beneficiary of Israel’s bloody summer war in Lebanon.
Lieberman is, roughly, the Jean-Marie Le Pen of Israel — minus, of course, the French National Front leader’s antisemitism. Lieberman is 48 years old, came to Israel from Russia when he was 20 and has long since replaced Natan Sharansky as the most prominent Russia political leader in Israel. He was, for a time, a senior aide to Benjamin Netanyahu, and he was both minister of infrastructure and minister of transportation under Ariel Sharon.
In the recent Knesset elections his party won 12 seats, and there was, for a time, talk about Lieberman and his party joining the coalition government. But back then — just months ago, even though it now seems a different era — Prime Minister Olmert was focused on achieving his goal of a withdrawal from the West Bank, which led him to turn leftward to Labor rather than lurching rightward toward Lieberman.
Rightward? Lieberman makes Bibi Netanyahu appear moderate. In an address to the Knesset five months ago, he unblushingly had this to say to Arab members of Israel’s parliament: “World War II ended with the Nuremberg trials and the leaders of the Nazi regime were executed; not just them, but also their collaborators. Just as [Pierre] Laval in France was executed, I hope that this will be the fate of the collaborators in this house [the Knesset]. Just as they knew to mete out justice to Laval, thus should justice be meted out to you, in precisely the same way.”
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Oh yeah, this is a really unbiased news article.
The choice of the most unrestrained and irresponsible man around for this job constitutes a strategic threat in its own right
Anyhow, I hope Israel nukes Iran back into a paleolithic society, since that's their mindset anyway.
Jordan rejects Lieberman comments as 'nonsense'
Nasser Judeh said the government "rejected" the remarks, saying they "don't make any sense."
Avigdor Lieberman told Israel Radio Saturday that the Jewish state should assassinate Hamas' leadership, ignore Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and walk away from international peace efforts. He said he believed the Palestinians are not interested in setting up their own state, but rather in destroying Israel.
Judeh told The Associated Press, "The only solution that guarantees security and peace in the region ... is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state."
"The only way to achieve this is through direct negotiations with the concerned party, which is the Palestinians," Judeh said. "Threats to use force and violence will only lead to more violence."
Jordan is one of two Arab nations to have signed a peace treaty with Israel.
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Lieberman is the punishment for the government's sins: The Lebanon adventure, the elimination of peace negotiations, the policy of deepening social gaps, and neglecting growing sectors of Israeli society while marginalizing them. All those delighted over what they characterized as the war's contribution to "national unity" paved the way for Lieberman, who will be taking care of a "unity celebration" that never ends, through ongoing war both internally and external.
Therefore, Lieberman will not stop waving the "state of emergency" flag – that same blood-soaked flag under whose shadow the massacre in Kfar Qassam took place 50 years ago.
Amir Peretz and the Labor Party leadership, who were able to but did not want to prevent Lieberman's addition, will soon discover the price they're paying. Lieberman has already declared that everything in the government will change, as "its basic lines are not worth much," and soon his party will have more ministers in the government.
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(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Peretz "is a fool and has no understanding of politics," said Minister for Strategic Matters Avigdor Lieberman Friday. Lieberman, whom Peretz accused of being racist, said Peretz's move to appoint Arab Labor MK Raleb Majadle was itself a sign of racism, citing "the Defense Minister's cynical use of MK Majadle in order to advance himself in the party primaries."
"If the primaries were not being held now, Majadle's appointment would not be on the table," said Lieberman, adding that "the fact that half of Labor's Central Assembly voted against Majadle yesterday proves that Labor hates minorities and immigrants."
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The poll showed that if elections were held today Netanyahu would earn the support of 22 percent of voters, followed by Avigdor Lieberman with 18 percent and Shimon Peres with 12 percent.
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