Israel's right wing starts their own Tea Party

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telegraph

Israel's right wing starts their own Tea Party
Barack Obama has become a target for the Israeli right following the creation of a pro-settler Tea Party who plan to hold a "Saying No to Obama" rally.
By Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem
Published: 6:06PM BST 27 Oct 2010

The new movement, which has taken inspiration from the US conservative group, is being spearheaded by disaffected former and present members of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party,

When it holds its inaugural rally in Tel Aviv on Sunday, the movement's stated target will be Mr Obama, the US president, whose call for a halt to Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank has caused anger on the Israeli right. The Likud party has long opposed the creation of a Palestinian state.

According to Michael Kleiner, a former Likud legislator who is one of the driving forces behind the movement, Mr Obama's policies towards Israel resemble the British attitudes in eighteenth century America that caused the original Boston Tea Party.

"We believe President Obama is trying to force us to do things that most Israelis believe are very dangerous," Mr Kleiner said. "We are being blackmailed to sacrifice our security and vital interests by another country, which is unprecedented."

"We also believe Netanyahu is crumbling and is going to give in on the freeze."



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[polichick]

1. Oh yippee - we've finally found something to export along with weapons. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Doesn't surprise me at all. A "Friend" on Facebook lives in Jerusalem.

He adores Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and has recently endorsed Geert Wilders.

[RainDog]

6. it's especially sad when Jews become fascists

but, sadly, fascists are also part of Israel.

http://www.alternet.org/world/148597/is_israel_on_the_verge_of_a_fascist_takeover/

Yitzhak Herzog, the Minister of Welfare in the Netanyahu government, a member of the Labor party, the grandson of a Chief Rabbi and the son of a President, said a few days ago that “fascism is touching the margins of our society”. He was wrong: fascism is not only touching the margins, it is touching the government in which he is serving, and the Knesset, of which he is a member.

Not a day – quite literally – passes without a group of Knesset members tabling a new racist bill. The country is still divided by the amendment to the law of citizenship, which will compel applicants to swear allegiance to “Israel as a Jewish and democratic state”. Now the ministers are discussing whether this will be demanded only of non-Jews (which doesn’t sound nice) or of Jews, too – as if this would change the racist content one bit.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

3. Anyone in Israel who is to the right of Netanyahu

should probably be locked in a padded cell, and obviously never allowed in the government.

I hate to see what has become of My former homeland, and what some of My people will believe :(

[Blue_Tires]

4. Too much to hope that some bold senator decides to yank Israel's funding over this...

[karynnj]

8. Over what? That there is a group of extremists, not even in the government?

[Chulanowa]

5. Nutballs

I feel sorry for that country at times. So much crazy, in so little space.

[thereismore]

7. ...because it worked so well here.

:crazy:

[iandhr]

9. IT DOES NOT MATTER....

... What religon you are. Once you hear gods voice talking to go everything else drives out

[Crowman1979]

10. Well they have something in common with US teabaggers.

They live off of federal tax dollars.

[Blacksheep214]

11. With friends like these...

who needs enemies?

The attack on the USS Liberty

Pollard and others spying

Total give a shit about America despite billions in aid

So much more and yet they dare mock and deride our president!

I think it's time to kick the litle bird out of the nest.

I hate arrogant bastards! Especially when we are paying for the privelege!