Netanyahu the Mythbuster: 'Special Relationship' No More | Ramzy Baroud

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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

March 25, 2015

Imagine if an American presidential candidate made a plea to his supporters on election day with the following statement: “The Republican administration is in danger. Black voters are going en masse to the polls. Liberal NGOs are bringing them on buses.”

Even in a country where Chris Matthews is a media celebrity and Pamela Geller is an intellectual, the statement would be scandalous, a political death wish even. In Israel, however, the opposite is true.

In a message delivered in a video on Facebook, incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a sinister call appealing to ingrained racism in Israeli society:

“The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are going en masse to the polls. Left-wing NGOs are bringing them on buses.”

Netanyahu’s fight was not exactly against the Arabs. The Joint List, which united various Arab parties as a response to new Israeli laws aimed at reducing their representation in the Knesset, came third with 14 seats. Though this is an impressive showing nonetheless, it falls short of being an imminent threat to Netanyahu or the Labor (Zionist Union) Party.

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[oberliner]

1. "Black voters are going en masse to the polls...."

What if Black voters had an entirely different national identity from the US and believed that the US was an illegitimate country occupying their true homeland?

Imagine if Black voters said, "we don't want to be called Americans" and that "our country of citizenship is also our enemy".

Idiotic garbage like this from Ramzy shows either a naive misunderstanding (unlikely) or a deliberate attempt to misinform.

If one thinks there is an analogous relationship between Israeli Arabs (which apparently is an insulting term) and American Black voters then one is exactly the kind of fool this nonsense appeals to.

[geek tragedy]

2. Avigdor Lieberman couldn't have said it any more explicitly.

This kind of rhetoric offends people that believe in pluralistic democracies.

But apparently there aren't many such folks in Israel, where those such as yourself view Arabs as an enemy within rather than fellow citizens.

[BillZBubb]

3. Ramzy's piece isn't garbage. Your post is.

You continue to keep your head in the sand, or worse, in order to defend anything the Israelis do. It is pathetic. Your Israeli propaganda point that Arab citizens of Israel believe Israel is an illegitimate country is disgusting. That's exactly the reason so many are disgusted with Netanyahu's tactic.

Keep catapulting the propaganda.

[oberliner]

7. Do African-American members of Congress walk out if the national anthem is played?

I wonder how that would go over.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. Perhaps they would if the confederate flag was raised

and they played Dixie.

[Mosby]

4. he really is clueless

American conservative "leaders" don't just talk about the threat of minority turnout they are actively trying to suppress their vote:


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gop-war-voting-sweeps-us

[Israeli]

5. How about ....

Quote :

" They elected a racist who on the day of elections told the media that Arabs were coming out to vote in droves. What would you say if in Germany they said that Jews were turning out to vote like mice?"

Yehonatan Geffen.

Source : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4642679,00.html

[oberliner]

6. People love those Nazi Germany analogies

Never fails.

[Israeli]

8. Yeah ...

.......never failed when y'all dressed Rabin up in SS uniform .

....and Naomi Chazan with a horn issuing from her forehead.

[Jefferson23]

9. +1 n/t

[King_David]

11. Your supporting a post making outrageous and defamatory comments against Oberliner?

Classy

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. Wow, so much fake outrage.

One might believe that you were being serious if they didn't know you better.

[King_David]

13. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=98628

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. I was under the impression that you were putting

me on ignore.

You really need to work more on your continuity or follow through.

[King_David]

10. Oberliner did that?

Link it up or apologize.

I actually remember Oberliner condemning such outrageous and offensive behavior at the time.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. Oh, such demands. Such outrage.

[King_David]

17. I guess if your not a part of the minority group affected here by such comments it's easy to brush

Them aside like that.

If your not part of any group involved in this conflict but adopted another people's struggle as your own and primary and exclusive struggle in life so much so that one sees it as their own--- then even more so.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

18. Everyone that is involved in human rights

is involved is this struggle, but there remains certain groups that continually tell the world that Israeli apartheid and human rights abuses are none of its concern.
They are usually the same groups that complain and cite their victim status while ignoring the victimization of others.

[King_David]

19. It's not people struggling for human rights in general ... Good for them...

It's those that have adopted this cause exclusively.... And are not part of either group.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

20. It must really drive some crazy that they are

not just able to snap their fingers and make the rules up.

But thank you for your 14th century views.