Posted on 01/13/2016 6:05:16 AM PST by Eleutheria5
More details emerged Tuesday morning regarding a secret recording of a meeting between ex-diplomat Alon Liel and about five central activists in Breaking the Silence, a group that besmirches the IDF abroad. The meeting took place in the Tel Aviv offices of Breaking the Silence – which receives funding from the New Israel Fund, among other sources – on December 17, 2015, and was recorded by a "secret agent" from nationalist group Ad Kan.
According to Yifat Erlich of Yediot Aharonot, who saw the entire recording, Nadav Weiman, Breaking the Silence's coordinator of activists, started the conversation by explaining that the group has been coming under fire for attacking Israel abroad, and describing a feeling that matters were spinning "out of control."
He described Liel as "a good friend of the organization who has been accompanying us from the outset."
Liel told the group that "international activity is critical." One reason, he said, is that the Left has lost the battle for Israeli public opinion.
"I receive terrible ricochets from the Israeli public," he continued. "I am threatened. All of my friends are threatened. I believe that only the international community can change public opinion, as happened in South Africa."
One of the activists asked Liel if the group's legitimacy does not depend on the Israeli public.
Liel replied: "What legitimacy do you have? You have a two percent legitimacy, you see. But what two percent? The most moral people, the brightest ones, who can see 20 years ahead, who are not brainwashed by the messianic right-wing propaganda. Only people who do not depend on anyone...."
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We need to get the UN booted from the US
There are traitors and then there are traitors who are really good at it.
How do you account for the fact that the United Nations Charter follows the format of the Russian (USSR) Constitution of 1936 rather than the format of the (Covenant of the) League of Nations? Would you feel there was any significance in the fact that the general secretary for the organization which drew up the charter was Alger Hiss? …We need to get the UN booted from the planet.
— The Naked Communist, Chapter 8
Liel told the group that "international activity is critical." One reason, he said, is that the Left has lost the battle for Israeli public opinion. ...If only that were true for the Israeli politicians at large.
Liel replied: "What legitimacy do you have? You have a two percent legitimacy, you see. But what two percent? The most moral people, the brightest ones, who can see 20 years ahead, who are not brainwashed by the messianic right-wing propaganda. Only people who do not depend on anyone...."What a piece of work that guy is, or piece of something anyway.
First Israel ought to walk out of it and then see what they will have to obsess about.
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