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The government can prevent Jewish attacks on Arabs by taking “legitimate” revenge for Palestinian terrorism, MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.
“Presumably, if the State of Israel had not been influenced by twisted Christian morals and had not erased the word ‘revenge’ from its lexicon, and would have done it [revenge] in legitimate ways and deterred the enemy, we would not have encountered these difficult cases of private people taking the law and the revenge into their own hands,” he said.
The day after Smotrich wrote not taking revenge is a Christian value, Jews read the Torah portion of Kedoshim, in which it says: “Do not take revenge and do not hold a grudge against members of your nation...”
Smotrich has previously courted controversy on many occasions, including when he said Jews who murdered an Arab family in Duma are not terrorists and recently, when he supported segregated maternity wards, saying his wife would not want to share a room with an Arab woman.
The statement about revenge was part of a long post in which Smotrich responded to a speech by Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan, who lamented finding traces of “horrific processes which developed in Europe – particularly in Germany – 70, 80, and 90 years ago” among Israelis.
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RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)I still can't believe that the UN hasn't done anything of significance to curb this rhetoric
branford
(4,462 posts)And if they could, do you similarly believe do so with the Palestinians?
RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)then they are much weaker than I thought. The authority in making suggestions comes from the int'l community. Palestine as a nation has no power to do anything of significance.
branford
(4,462 posts)only one minister from a minority party made comment that didn't reflect official Israeli policy.
Do you really believe the UN needs to or should demand individual politicians from every country "pipe down" when they make comments that are "divisive," or is your ire directly solely at Israelis?
King_David
(14,851 posts)Not this insignificant small fry .
MisterP
(23,730 posts)
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Uri Ariel (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development), Naftali Bennett (Minister of Education, Minister of Diaspora Affairs) and Ayelet Shaked (Minister of Justice). These 3 ministers frequently make racist statements and probably agree wholeheartedly with Bezalel Smotrich about carrying out revenge attacks. Israel has a problem with racism, and part of the problem is that the worst of the racists are in the government.
Israeli
(4,310 posts)or Bezalel Smotrich .......this is classic Religious Right wing .
They are all fascist racists .
The worst of them are not in the government.....they are in the Wild West Bank and are those that put them in power .
6chars
(3,967 posts)He is also a proud homophobe. In fact, he said "I am a proud homophobe"
Likes to say hateful things about various groups to bring attention to himself and in the process damages Israel's reputation.
I hope the Knesset sanctions him for incitement.