Posted on 03/18/2015 8:55:27 PM PDT by Dave346
Are the Israeli people sick? According to Haaretz Columnist Gideon Levy, who was unsurprisingly not pleased with the results of Tuesday’s elections in Israel, the answer is “yes.” In an opinion column he published shortly after the results were announced, Levy called for the replacement of the Israeli people for re-electing Benjamin Netanyahu.
Levy wrote that, “the first conclusion that comes to my mind two minutes after the release of the election results is particularly depressing: We have to replace the people. [What's necessary] is not more elections to change the leadership of the State, but rather a general election to elect a new people of Israel – and to improvise,” said Levy. He added that, “the country urgently needs this. It will be difficult for it to continue under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, who it looks like will be forming the next government.”
Levy’s disappointment with Israelis resulted from their overwhelming choice of Netanyahu over his chief rival Isaac Herzog to lead the next government. Levy noted that, “if, after six years of nothing; six years of disseminating fear and anxiety, hatred and despair – and just that – this is the people’s choice, then the people is very sick.”
Levy was unrelenting in his scathing criticism of the Israeli people, saying “if after all that has been revealed in the last months, if after all that has been written and said, if after all this, this phoenix – this Israeli phoenix – was able to once again rise from the ashes and be re-elected; if after all of this the Israeli people elected him for another four years, then something is seriously broken in the people, something that may be beyond repair.”
In his opinion, “Netanyahu suits the Israeli people, and the people of Israel are suited to Netanyahu. The lot had not yet been cast yesterday, but it foreshadowed a direction, and that direction is that a significant portion of the Israeli people has completely disconnected from reality.”
According to Levy, the Israeli people re-elected Netanyahu as a result of “years of indoctrination and incitement,” leading them to “say yes to those who say no to a Palestinian state – and what is this? And what the hell, yes, dear Likud voters?” He opined that this was a vote for “another 50 years of occupation and ostracism. Do you really believe in that?”
Levy did not stop there. He claimed Israel was on its way to becoming an apartheid state under Netanyahu’s leadership, as a result of these elections, and that it was now only a matter of time before the IDF launched its next “savage attack against Gaza.”
Levy ended his op-ed by saying that, “an election like this must be viewed seriously, and with an election like this, it is very difficult to hope for the best. All that’s left is the loser’s hope: that with one more term for Netanyahu, at least the world will be awakened to act.”
“Gideon Levy is one of the worst extremists at Haaretz.
One gets the feeling that nothing about Israel makes him happy.”
Reminds you of the “news readers” on the MSM ( and the Muslim “immigrants”) both of whom are never “happy” no matter where they are!
Delicious irony :D
Democracy is government by the people. Wrong government = wrong people. It makes so much sense now. Eliminate the people and you eliminate the wrong government. This creepy stuff.
Adolescent sophistry but okay, let’s follow your line of thinking:
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“Seems to me your Arab Brothers are looking to expand their neighborhood.
Hey, I’ve got a splendid idea.
Why not let the Arabs have “their” ancient lands back?
Maybe they can hang with you, sharing schwarma and falafel recipes...
You guys need to integrate anyway...
He ends by calling on the world to harm his own nation. The very definition of a traitor. Expel him, Bibi.
Marxists have left killing fields all over the world. They have to prove their intellectual superiority over capitalists.
Pray America is waking
I have to sympathize. It’s how I felt 11/06/2012 when Americans reelected Obama. Of course, he was elected with ‘replacement’ Americans.
Nope. Sounds more like how the Nazis “replaced” some people.
Pure evil.
>> They intend to REPLACE us.
Should be fun!
Gideon Levy can start first and leave Israel.
Mmmm.
That is a very grim and stark assessment.
I confess that I had not looked at this in that way, but considering the currents of this world, such a thing could indeed be just around the next bend...
Who knows whether Levy’s motives are intentional misdirection, or he is simply misinformed? All the left needs to do in Israel is what the left has done in the U.S., eliminate their paper ballots. In Israel every citizen shows identification to enter a precinct and leaves his hand written ballot in a locked and observed box. There is probably still some cheating, but because the cheating must usually involve losing whole boxes, boxes which are guarded before, while, and after they are opened and ballots counted.
In the U.S. computers read either marked cards or touch screens, storing the counts in local computers which either have removable memory or Internet connections, which are managed in each state by SEIU employees who, completely unobserved, we presume will tabulate votes honestly, even if the vote is likely to cost them their jobs, should a “righg-to-work” candidate be running. There is no chain of evidence or audit trail possible in the U.S. with the mish mash of voting machines, including most recently many manufactured by a company owned by the Venezuelan government.
Netanyahu won because Israel still honors the principles that make a nation representative of its people. and while the young are naïve, most of its citizens are not suicidal, and have no allusion that welfare will quench the drive for the violent Jihad ordered by the Koran to convert, subjugate, or kill unbelievers.
In the U.S. the media have been co-opted and our biggest unions penetrated by admitted socialists and communists who own the Democrat party through the teacher’s unions. Votes are counted, if they are at all - no one can say with any provable authority - by SEIU employees overseen by State’s Attorney’s General, many of whom were elected with the help of the brilliant George Soros who sponsored the Attorney General Project, a spinoff of Acorn, in 2006.
No surprise. Obama is probably writing him checks with your tax dollars.
Funny how that is the same amount of time obummer has been in office fighting Bibi the entire time. Let us get a real American who appreciates our relationship with Israel and then see what happens.
Yeah..., guy named Hitler tried that....
Well, Gideon, there are plenty of Muslim bomber throwers who would be happy to move into Israel to help transform that country into something you’d prefer. Open up the borders, and let them pour in.
But here’s a clue for you, since you don’t appear to have one-they want kill all Jews, not just the conservative ones. You can’t buy their approval. Give them everything they want, and they will still want to kill you.
The guy doesn’t think Arab states are “apartheid?”
THAT is how they intend to remain the same —by REPLACING us.
I agree that’s their dream.
What I find both fascinating as well as disturbing is that this columnist no longer feels the need to dissemble about his feelings and goals.
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