Shameful alliance of Netanyahu with ultra-extremists
"The people who make up Jewish Power are right-wing fanatic religious trouble makers, they represent something very dangerous and have not had widespread support up until now,” said Dalia Scheindlin a public opinion expert who has worked on five Israeli electoral campaigns.
“I hear a number of voices in the national religious community freaking out,” she added.
Israel's racist, extremist, murderous and highly corrupt prime minister Netanyahu has tied his knots with the Jewish Power so that he can get reelected.
Jewish Power last ran in the 2015 election on a joint list but has yet to secure a seat in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The party calls for the annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, complete Israeli control over all land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the cancellation of the Oslo peace accords and for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over Temple Mount.
It also advocates the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are deemed not loyal enough to the country and the deportation of what it calls “Arab extremists”.
It is believed to be spawned from the Kahanist movement, founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was personally accused of plotting various terrorist attacks throughout the 1970s. Rabbi Kahane’s followers continue to face accusations of supporting domestic terrorism and incitement to racism.
Mr Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure to perform well in the snap elections set for 9 April.
On Wednesday, the premier helped broker a controversial agreement between the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party and Jewish Power, an offshoot of the banned Kach movement, which was outlawed by Israel and the US because of its racist and extremist views.
As part of their deal, Mr Netanyahu gave the merged party a seat on his Likud Party's list of candidates and guaranteed them two cabinet positions if he wins.
The American Jewish Committee, a powerful New-York based Jewish advocacy group, said it felt “compelled to speak out” about the merger which it called “reprehensible”.
Even the AIPAC is not happy with this development.
On Monday around 90 powerful rabbis and scholars part of Torat Chayim, a worldwide association of progressive-minded Orthodox rabbis, joined the denunciation of the Israeli leader’s new deal calling Jewish Power “lamentable”.
Torat Chayim said Jewish Power was “a racist, violently nationalist party which justifies terrorist activity by Jews, is anti-democratic, preaches hatred toward other Jews and Arabs”.
Among the signatories were renowned scholars Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and Rabbi Asher Lopatin.
"The ends do not justify the means," they wrote in a statement published online.
"This deal with a detestable group to get them into the Knesset [parliament] will give a black eye to Israel and its standing in the world as a moral and democratic state. This is truly a lamentable failure on the part of a leader who has focused his life on Israel's security and on strengthening its international standing," it added.
The fact of the matter is Netanyahu never had any morals. And this latest episode is one more example of his politics.
See the link here to find out more.
“I hear a number of voices in the national religious community freaking out,” she added.
Israel's racist, extremist, murderous and highly corrupt prime minister Netanyahu has tied his knots with the Jewish Power so that he can get reelected.
Jewish Power last ran in the 2015 election on a joint list but has yet to secure a seat in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The party calls for the annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, complete Israeli control over all land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the cancellation of the Oslo peace accords and for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over Temple Mount.
It is believed to be spawned from the Kahanist movement, founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was personally accused of plotting various terrorist attacks throughout the 1970s. Rabbi Kahane’s followers continue to face accusations of supporting domestic terrorism and incitement to racism.
Mr Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure to perform well in the snap elections set for 9 April.
On Wednesday, the premier helped broker a controversial agreement between the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party and Jewish Power, an offshoot of the banned Kach movement, which was outlawed by Israel and the US because of its racist and extremist views.
The American Jewish Committee, a powerful New-York based Jewish advocacy group, said it felt “compelled to speak out” about the merger which it called “reprehensible”.
Even the AIPAC is not happy with this development.
On Monday around 90 powerful rabbis and scholars part of Torat Chayim, a worldwide association of progressive-minded Orthodox rabbis, joined the denunciation of the Israeli leader’s new deal calling Jewish Power “lamentable”.
Torat Chayim said Jewish Power was “a racist, violently nationalist party which justifies terrorist activity by Jews, is anti-democratic, preaches hatred toward other Jews and Arabs”.
"The ends do not justify the means," they wrote in a statement published online.
"This deal with a detestable group to get them into the Knesset [parliament] will give a black eye to Israel and its standing in the world as a moral and democratic state. This is truly a lamentable failure on the part of a leader who has focused his life on Israel's security and on strengthening its international standing," it added.
The fact of the matter is Netanyahu never had any morals. And this latest episode is one more example of his politics.
See the link here to find out more.
Comments
Post a Comment