Shulamit Aloni, a former head of Israel’s Meretz party, gave an interview to Yedioth on her 81st birthday. “It’s hard for me to say a kind word about the state today,” she said.
“No one should be speaking this nonsense about ‘blood on the hands.’ Since 2000, with the launching of the second intifada, we have murdered thousands. We too have blood on our hands,” she remarked.
“We need to release those demanded (by Hamas) immediately,” she went on. …
“We are a nefarious people. What we are doing in the West Bank is worse than all the pogroms done to the Jews.” But she qualified her statement by saying she was “not referring to the Nazis, but the Cossacks.”
Conventional leftist self-hatred, as these things go. But this comment on Israeli politics was interesting:
“The Right has two left hands, but the Left doesn’t even exist today,” she said.
Here’s a free political insight: that’s because most Israelis don’t loathe their country, and they know the Aloni-Meretz faction does.
If this keeps Fulani Bloomberg from trivializing the campaign with his presence, it’ll be worth it.
Jews need to recognize that they can have more than one political enemy in the same contest.
On every mention of Farrakhan, Obama called him “minister.” This is denouncing? Obama could have used just his full name if he didn’t want to offend the “minister’s” constituency.