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After Netanyahu’s Electoral Victory, Haaretz Columnist Says the Israeli People Must be Replaced
Algemeiner ^ | March 18, 2015 9:22 pm | David Daoud

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.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: Dave346

Well, how about we trade him our Barry voters with their BiBi voters.


41 posted on 03/19/2015 3:37:06 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Dave346
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.”

Ending apartheid worked out so well for Rhodesia, didn't it?

The biggest mistake the Israelis did, was in failing to expel the Muslims after they won. There can be no peace with the Palis. There can be no co-existence.

42 posted on 03/19/2015 3:43:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Dave346
Easy enough...0bama confers dual citizenship on our illegals...


43 posted on 03/19/2015 4:20:08 AM PDT by pookie18 (20 months until the general election...)
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To: Dave346

So “Right of Return” = Amnesty?


44 posted on 03/19/2015 4:50:06 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Dave346

At least the Israelis are getting “sick” in the right direction - us Americans are suffering a comparative death wish because we’d rather seat Satan than someone with a couple flaws we disagree with.


45 posted on 03/19/2015 4:50:48 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: RichInOC
Mr. Levy apparently knows his Brecht. Apparently not well enough, though, to realize that Comrade Bertolt was joking.

Brecht's dark jest was exactly what came to my mind.

46 posted on 03/19/2015 5:06:14 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Paladin2

A large majority of them come from Eastern Europe which in my mind is the center of this thinking. Leaving by air from Israel you are presented with the most depressing art i have ever seen. This group has a morbid hold from the demonic past.


47 posted on 03/19/2015 5:15:04 AM PDT by magua
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To: RichInOC
Mr. Levy apparently knows his Brecht. Apparently not well enough, though, to realize that Comrade Bertolt was joking.

Brecht's dark jest was exactly what came to my mind.

48 posted on 03/19/2015 5:16:06 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: freebilly

So did a few other Marxists named Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot.


49 posted on 03/19/2015 5:35:00 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: matt1234; vette6387; Nachum; mazda77; SkyPilot; Lumper20; tet68; left that other site; LUV W; ...

Beware of boxcars and wooden soap.


50 posted on 03/19/2015 5:58:33 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I don’t think they are passive anymore. IJS.......


51 posted on 03/19/2015 11:08:51 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: Dave346

Just who does this dude think he is!!!


52 posted on 03/19/2015 11:12:09 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead; Dave346
You have got to be kidding me. Wow.

Now that Obama and the Left are rubbing their carpet burns, they are spewing even more venom.

The Jews are nothing but "Raaaaysis" for voting for their own sitting Prime Minister. Obama is calling for "Mandatory Voting"!!! Which is nothing more than the DNC rigging every single vote.

Incredible.

53 posted on 03/19/2015 1:16:25 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: bray

Good post!


54 posted on 03/19/2015 4:41:16 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: bray

Amen to that FReeper friend, Amen to that.


55 posted on 03/19/2015 6:11:25 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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