{"id":178153,"date":"2019-02-21T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/21\/remember-when-i-called-binyamin-netanyahu-the-greatest-threat-to-israel-ever\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:15:00","slug":"remember-when-i-called-binyamin-netanyahu-the-greatest-threat-to-israel-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/21\/remember-when-i-called-binyamin-netanyahu-the-greatest-threat-to-israel-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When I Called Binyamin Netanyahu the Greatest Threat to Israel Ever?*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, now that his two most formidable election opponents have made an agreement to campaign together, Bibi is inviting the equivalent of Ku Klux Klan to join his government<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Israeli election cycle currently underway has been awash<\/a> in anti-Arab racism for a while now. But things just got much, much worse.<\/span>

<\/span> On Wednesday, Haaretz reported<\/a> that Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> pushed the Jewish Home Party to join another party, the \u201cJewish Power\u201d party, which inherited its leaders and politics from the well-known racist Meir Kahane.<\/span>

<\/span> Kahana\u2019s Kach party was outlawed in 1994, the same year it was listed<\/a> as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, after a supporter, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Arabs at prayer in Hebron and the party issued its support.<\/span>

<\/span> And now, in 2019, it\u2019s back.
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<\/span> If the Jewish Home Party votes in favor of the merger, it will mean that Michael Ben-Ari, banned from entering the U.S.<\/a> for belonging to a terrorist organization, will be part of the ruling coalition of the Jewish State. It will mean that Itamar Ben Gvir, convicted of<\/a> inciting racism and supporting terrorism, will be welcomed in the halls of the Knesset as a lawmaker.<\/span>

<\/span> It will mean that Kahana\u2019s legacy \u2014 including his attempts to strip non-Jewish Israelis of their citizenship, ban marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and transfer Israel\u2019s Arab population out of Israel \u2014 will once again have advocates in the Israeli government.<\/p>\n

……<\/p>\n

Netanyahu<\/a> has spent the better part of the last two years leading Israel down an ugly road of increased ethnonationalism. From the Nation State bill<\/a>, which ratifies Jewish supremacy over Israel\u2019s minorities, to the whitewashing of Holocaust revisionists<\/a> in Poland and Hungary, to the embrace of racist premieres of other countries like the Philippines and Brazil, Netanyahu has put all his eggs in the racist, ethnonationalist basket.<\/p>\n

The embrace of a party literally called Jewish Power is only the last in a long line of betrayals of Jews, Jewish history and Jewish values. What is the lesson of Jewish history if not that the rights of minorities must be vigorously, vigorously protected? What are Jewish values if not the Torah\u2019s exhortation that we pursue justice, justice at all costs? What are Jews if not the descendants of the most hounded people in history, ourselves the victims of ethnic cleansing time and again?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This will end up destroying Israel, but Netanyahu cannot see past the next election and holding onto power until the police drag his corrupt ass out of office.<\/p>\n

Benyamin Netanyahu is more than a Shanda fur die Goyim<\/a>, that is to say a source of shame.<\/p>\n

He is an immediate and clear and present danger to the continued existence of the Jewish State, and everyone living here.  He is a \u05e8\u05d5\u05b9\u05d3\u05b5\u05e3 (rodef), much has he claimed about Yitzak Rabin all those years ago.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>If you don’t remember when I did this, here is a link<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, now that his two most formidable election opponents have made an agreement to campaign together, Bibi is inviting the equivalent of Ku Klux Klan to join his government: The Israeli election cycle currently underway has been awash in anti-Arab racism for a while now. But things just got much, much worse. On Wednesday, Haaretz …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,368,364,374,398],"class_list":["post-178153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}