Israel is about to make a misjudgement as disastrous – and deadly – as the attack on Gaza. In a few days, it looks as if it could elect Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister once again.
This is a man calling for the violent re-occupation of Gaza to "liquidate" its elected government.
Of course, being an extreme radical progressive liberal leftwinger, and dumb, he was 'borrowing' from Haaretz's Gideon Levy, who wrote:
In his remarks at the Herzliya Conference this week Netanyahu said Israel halted the Gaza operation too soon and should have liquidated the Hamas regime in Gaza. After all, we are experts at liquidation. In 1987 Likud liquidated the Peres-Hussein London Agreement, which would have handed control of the West Bank over to Jordan's King Hussein - a solution that any right-thinking person longs for today. In its stead, we got Yasser Arafat, with whom an agreement could have been reached, but Netanyahu chose to liquidate this option as well. Instead of Arafat, we got Hamas, and after Netanyahu "liquidates" it as well, we will get Islamic Jihad and, after that, Al-Qaida.
Now, I heard Netanyahu in Hebrew and he used the verb למוטט which simply means to "knock down" or "to cause to collapse" (see here).
So, why should Levy use Nazi semantics and Hari follow suit?
Could they hate Netanyahu that much?
Sure.
After all, aren't they crazy? For them, Nazism is a weapon to use especially directed at Jews.
P.S. His email is j.hari@independent.co.uk
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