Sign Petition Here: Lieberman Must Not Be In The Israeli Government
Frankly, I am not crazy about any of the contenders for the prime ministership of Israel. None of them, as far as I can tell, seems to understand that Hamas cannot be bombed into submission or that killing innocent civilians is, by definition, wrong.
But Avigdor Lieberman is in a class of his own. An immigrant from Belarus, he ran on a policy of forcing Israeli Arabs to either sign a loyaltry oath, lose all rights of citizenship, or get out. He's been in Israel ten minutes; they have been there forever and he's the nativist!
In any case, right now both Livni and Netanyahu are courting him to help tachieve a majority and win the top job. If either becomes PM with Lieberman in the government, it will represent the first time a western state included a neo-facist in the governing coalition. (Think David Duke here or the late Jorge Haider in Austria).
It can't be allowed to happen. Sign this petition and help prevent it. It is our business. The United States is Israel's only major ally on the planet; we have a say, or should.
Start a petition that demands that the US cut all ties to Israel.
I dare ya!
February 18, 2009 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Done. Thanks, MJ.
February 18, 2009 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know, at first glance I thought this post was going to be about Traitor Joe.
February 18, 2009 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jorg Haider just died. Lieberman rises. Is the fascist quotient in humanity a scientific constant?
February 18, 2009 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
"He's been in [the middle east] ten minutes; they have been there forever and he's the nativist"
That sounds like the majority of Israelis
February 18, 2009 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
:-)
February 18, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I share your sentiments and signed the petition, but your history is bad. Jorg Haider's Freiheitliche Partei was part of the Austrian governing coalition from 00-02? Also, do you not consider neo-Fascist the Swiss People's Party, the largest parliamentary party and sometime member of the governing coalition in Switzerland? Its entire platform seemed to be animus against black African immigrants. It infamously used two campaign signs: one with three white sheep kicking a black sheep off of the Swiss flag, with the caption Sicherheit Schaffen (Creating Security); the other with black hands grabbing Swiss passports, with the caption: Massen Einburgrung? Nein (Mass granting of citizenship? No. How about the inclusion in Italy's governing coalition of the Northern League, whose leader (Umberto Rossi) publicly expressed his desire to send all the blacks back to Africa?
February 18, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
It can't be allowed to happen. Sign this petition and help prevent it. It is our business. The United States is Israel's only major ally on the planet; we have a say, or should
Sure, MJ, Sure. And if the Zionists had made a better deal with the Nazis, the Holocaust could have been prevented. Sure.
You are driving yourself nuts, MJ, and right out in public, too. So Israel will listen to your little petition, huh? okay. To be nice to you?
February 18, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
But Avigdor Lieberman is in a class of his own. An immigrant from Belarus, he ran on a policy of forcing Israeli Arabs to either sign a loyaltry oath, lose all rights of citizenship, or get out. He's been in Israel ten minutes; they have been there forever and he's the nativist!
A class of his own? Sounds like every Zionist or Israeli I ever met!
Go ahead, MJ, throw away your credibility for Israel. You won't be the first, just one of the last to do that.
February 18, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mooser, dude, trying reading.
MJ has ALWAYS--like since the late 60s--been a Zionist.
He doesn't speak from an anti-Zionist, anti-Israel stance.
You can object to that, of course--but don't act surprised if, now and then, MJ says things that don't sound like "Israel is the death star, eject now."
February 18, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I'll "try" writing -:)
February 18, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whether it is Livni, Netanayahu, or Lieberman the goal remains the same: "How do we get rid of the Palestinians?"
February 18, 2009 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right. And you are only an "Arab moderate" if you object ineffectively. And if you are a Palestinian being slowly suffocated who protest (however ineffectively), well, you are an anti-Semite.
February 18, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Taking the lighter side, I think Lieberman is an Israeli Yacov Smirnoff:
You mean I emigrate here from Russia, get paid US aid money, and I can have this land if I chase these Arabs out of here? Israel: What a Country!
On a more pragmatic and even ironic note, it turns out that the Obama administration is reviewing Lieberman's cv, and could deny him entry to the US, based on his terrorist affiliations.
February 18, 2009 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink