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Violet_Crumble

(36,142 posts)
3. Agree on both counts....
Sat Jun 25, 2016, 07:51 AM
Jun 2016

This article is really good and discusses the incitement on both sides of the conflict...

And indeed there is no shortage of incendiary remarks or racist statements emanating from Israeli elites. Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett has advised Israelis that if they “catch terrorists, you have to simply kill them. I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that”. Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has warned “behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism… They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads…They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there”. The late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, similarly asked “how can you make peace with an [Arab] snake? Those evildoers, the Arabs — it says in the Gemara [Talmud] that God is sorry he ever created those sons of Ishmael”.

Israel’s political rhetoric has fanned (or reflected) what one Israeli journalist recently described as a combination of public incitement, rabbinical edicts, Facebook insults, chants by some sections of supporters of the Beitar Jerusalem football team, and prevalent anti-Arab sentiment. At the same time, the Israeli government is reported to have funded various right-wing movements seeking to alter the status quo on the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif, as well as non-profits promoting price-tag attacks against Palestinians. The recent execution of an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in Hebron by an IDF soldier and immolation of a Palestinian family in Duma are but two of the inevitable manifestations of these dynamics. Incitement it would seem, is a two-way street in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_why_incitement_runs_both_ways_in_israel_palestine_6087


Abbas should stop regurgitating old anti-Semitic memes. Little Tich Jun 2016 #1
Holocaust deniers like Abbas do Jew hating memes all the time. What do you.... shira Jun 2016 #2
Agree on both counts.... Violet_Crumble Jun 2016 #3
Yes, I agree with the ECFR article to a great degree. Little Tich Jun 2016 #4
Abbas is a Holocaust Denier who has been inciting against Jews for years... shira Jun 2016 #8
Rabin and Olmert. Little Tich Jun 2016 #10
Then you should support Olmert's offer 2008, not make excuses for rejecting it. n/t shira Jun 2016 #11
Abbas incites regularly against Jews. The Israeli leaders mentioned in that article... shira Jun 2016 #7
Those Israeli leaders are talking about arabs Violet_Crumble Jun 2016 #15
Abbas retracts charge that rabbis called to poison Palestinian water Little Tich Jun 2016 #5
EU lawmakers applauded Abbas' incitement. What do you think about that? n/t shira Jun 2016 #6
They were probably applauding the leader of the Palestinians pushing the two-state solution. Little Tich Jun 2016 #9
No, they're racists as evidenced by fact they haven't condemned Abbas... shira Jun 2016 #12
See #13 below. That rat's nest called Mondoweiss which you adore is defending Abbas.... shira Jun 2016 #14
A week later, no condemnation by EU parliament. This doesn't bother you at all? n/t shira Jul 2016 #17
Why would the EU condemn a retracted statement? Little Tich Jul 2016 #18
Because they applauded it originally. Guess you don't have a problem at all. shira Jul 2016 #19
And of course, here's Mondoweiss to defend Abbas & EU lawmakers who applauded his hatred... shira Jun 2016 #13
President of European Parliament tweets support of Abbas' antisemitic speech... shira Jul 2016 #16
WATCH: EU Ambassador to Israel will not condemn Abbas' incitement.... shira Jul 2016 #20
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