Haaretz
Netanyahu talar om ”etnisk rensning”
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.741256
Haaretz korrespondent Gideon Levy skriver
”Ja Netanyahu låt oss tala om etnisk rensning ” (låst art för prenumeranter)
”Turning Israeli settlers into victims is the prime minister’s most staggering act of chutzpah yet. The only mass ethnic cleansing that took place here was in 1948, when some 700,000 Arabs were forced to leave their lands.”
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Haaretz korrespondent Chemi Shalev skriver en artikel under rubrik
”Netanyahu’s Claim of ’Ethnic Cleansing’ Sets a Guinness Record for Chutzpah ”
Artikeln inleds med orden (låst art för prenumeranter)
”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim in a Facebook video on Friday that the Palestinian demand for the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the West Bank constitutes “ethnic cleansing” belongs in the same league as “Arabs are coming to vote in droves” and “the Mufti persuaded Hitler to exterminate the Jews.” It’s the kind of statement you can’t believe he really said until you see he really said it. Then come the aftershocks, when all sorts of people in the know laud the utterance as a brilliant gambit of a grandmaster strategist.
He wanted to divert the public agenda from the recent crisis over railroad construction on Shabbat, which tainted him, to rebuffing the expected backlash of leftists over his right wing assertions, at which he excels. He is distracting attention from the ongoing police investigation of potential corruption charges. He wants to humiliate Mahmoud Abbas a bit more, after the Palestinian leader was forced to agree to a Moscow summit without preconditions, and perhaps to scuttle the meeting altogether. He wants to show Yair Lapid, who has been breathing down his neck in the polls after assuming a more right wing position, how a consummate rabble-rouser can muster up the nationalist mob without even breaking a sweat. He wants to stick it to U.S. President Barack Obama while he still can, just for the fun of it – or to show what a ferocious war he’ll wage against the prospective UN Security Council resolution on the conflict. ”
// Irène
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