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Leftist groups to sue Lieberman
Ronen Medzini
Published: 18.07.11, 23:01
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1. These organizationjs support terror. It is a FACT !
(07.18.11)
2. Don't they support ISM and Peace NOW?
Yaniv ,   Israel   (07.18.11)
Well, both ISM and Peace NOW support the Hamas government and Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization. They can file a lawsuit, but they'll lose for sure.
3. They are Terror supporters...sue me also
(07.18.11)
I am glad that this is coming to court. there so called human rights organization will now need to disclose previously secret information as to where they get their funding and such. this will, in actuality, be great in place of the bill which Bibi rejects....
4. TRUTH is the best defense against a libel charge!
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (07.18.11)
5. List
Abraham Nachmias ,   Petach Tikva IL   (07.18.11)
Let's start a list so to be sued together with Lieberman! I am the first! Anybody wants to join? Terror groups they are and Michael Sfard is an employee of all anti Israeli groups, let them sue!
6. Now these NGOs will have to disprove
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (07.18.11)
Lieberman's assertions, reveal themselves and become transparent. In that case, they will likely retract their lawsuit. However, Lieberman might then be in a position to sue them for false accusations and turn the tables.
7. # 5,,,,,
Dana Rothschild ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.18.11)
I am with you, Abraham.... and with Lieberman all the way!
8. let's wash his mouth out with soap! :-P
(07.18.11)
9. cool! they used the word "mendacious" wow!
(07.18.11)
10. No problem...
Adam ,   Golan Heights Israel   (07.18.11)
Time for Lieberman to sue the asses off all the "terror-supporting" leftist groups, for all the libels they have made up about him. Two can play at that game, you enemies. Yes I do consider the gangs Lieberman referred to "enemies".
11. Sue Me!
NYC Girl   (07.18.11)
I've been calling these people terrorist sycophants (and ass-kissers) ever since they began their hypocritical savaging of Israel...and I used to be as far left as any of them.
12. HE WENT TOO FAR
Ricardo Macher ,   Karne Shomron IL   (07.18.11)
Lieberman went too far. The left is correct to sue him. The guy is drunk of power and you know... these Russians with vodka are dangerous people
13. 5&7
Olga ,   Warsaw/Poland   (07.18.11)
I am with you;)
14. These guys will not sue or else it will be their loss.
leo ,   usa   (07.18.11)
Check this claim: "Yesh Din, and Breaking the Silence say they will sue foreign minister for libel after he called them 'terror groups and terror supporters'". Is it really that difficult to prove that some one is terror supporter? I do not think there is going to be a law suite.
15. Under Israeli law ...
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (07.18.11)
... Lieberman, as a currently-serving government minister, is immune from prosecution. As to the leftist groups that feel unduly maligned -- we have a saying in the United States: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck and quacks like a duck ..... it's probably a duck. If you act like terrorists, align yourselves with terrorists, actively promote terrorist acts against the State of Israel, support the call to breach Israel's fully legal and internationally recognized maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, you are acting in concert with terrorists and are therefore terrorists by association. Do you want to sue me, too?
16. Sarah #15
Lobo ,   USA   (07.19.11)
Agree with you 100%. Those leftist pigs can sue me too. And my guess is that when this suit falls through, Israel Beitenu will become even more powerful, and Liberman might even become the next PM.
17. "Human rights groups announced..."
Chatich   (07.19.11)
Shouldn't that opener be prefaced by "Alleged" or "Self proclaimed"? Why are anti-Israel groups automatically legitimized in the media, while any pro-Israeli source merely "claims" or "asserts" their credentials?
18. These guys are afraid to bring a suit, because THEY WILL B
Judah ,   ISRAEL   (07.19.11)
Exposed as the complicit supporters of the arab leftist onslught against the Jewish state. shameful self hatred and confusion
19. Stix n' stones can break my bones but names you call me
JEWISHNESS ,   Atlanta USA   (07.19.11)
can't hurt me...unless you live in the middle east, land of hate...where everybody has a negative name for everybody else. and everybody else calls everybody else names, everywhere, but most keep it to themselves, but not there... if there was ever a solution, build 10 million houses, give everyone a house, a car, but NO NEIGHBORHOODS... and no two races or religions may live next to each other...a 100% homogenized land...Then there are the stores...Build 1000000 stores...same rules. Each business gets a truck and an accountant...a dream city.
20. Sue me, too!
Gábor Fränkl   (07.19.11)
They are, along with their lawyer, who ISby the way an active member of one of them (Yesh Din), terror-supporters, if not terrorists themselves!!!
21. Let them try to prove they don't support terror
Sure they do   (07.19.11)
22. #12 - Ricardo, the Left levies accusations like this always.
William ,   Israel   (07.19.11)
The Left constantly levies these type of accusations against the Right including calling them racists, accusing them of ethnic cleansing and apartheid, comparing them with Nazis. What is the difference? The Right isn't immature about it and doesn't turn it into a court case. Speaking of "court", it's ironic the Left would immediately rush to sue Lieberman for his free speech while often ignoring court rulings and breaking laws they don't agree with. The Left is drunk with power, and supporting known terror groups. That's a fact.
23. Lieberman should invite a lawsuit.
Chatich   (07.19.11)
Then just watch the jukim scurry back to their holes before the light gets shone on them. Yasher koach, Avigdor.
24. Leiberman, continue to speak the truth.
Nathan Rai   (07.19.11)
Leiberman is the only politician who speaks the truth. Wild, mendacious and thuggish ? This is an opportunity to prove and publicise the truth. To prove that Israel is democratic and close to suicidally patient. And that it can hit back. And will.
25. if they are terrorists
yaacovic ,   Melbourne, Australia   (07.19.11)
I remind all those jumping on the band wagon to make claims against the left wing groups that there are already strict laws in Israel against assisting terrorists or being actively involved in terror groups and legal means of enforcement. Penalties for involvement in terrorist activities are harsh. If Lieberman believes in what he has said, then he also truly believes that these groups have commited criminal offences. In that case he should press charges against them in the courts and would be right to do so. If however he believes that he has no case or hard evidence and is merely voicing suspicions as if they were facts, he is in fact maligning these groups. If he is unable or unwilling to take legal action against them for terrorist activity, it leads me to suspect his opposition to these groups is merely because they have strongly opposed opinions and politics to his own. He should in this instance refrain from making lightly considered and libelous comments. The Knesset is not a court of law and Knesset members are not judges. Unfortunately Lieberman and his ilk dont seem to be able to tell the difference. It is extremely disturbing and perverse that they would turn the Knesset into a court so that anyone with a strongly opposed view could be painted as an outlaw.
26. Avigdor Lieberman will be the next PM of Israel
Lior Eliraz ,   TA Israel   (07.19.11)
The only guy that is not afraid to call a spade a spade,he has courage and determination.And he will pull these so called peaceful NGO's into line..
27. Response to #9
John ,   Alaska   (07.19.11)
I'm sure that both Dictionary dot com and Google dictionary pay YNet for each polysyllabic word they use that people look up. :)
28. Lieberman is a TRUE Stalinist
Yossi   (07.19.11)
Like Stalin, anybody who disagree with him is traitor or terrorist. Lieberman is the most dangerous men in Israel.
29. # 5: add my name Yosef Stalin
Proud Stalinist   (07.19.11)
30. THEY re terrorist supporters therefore TERRORISTS!
EZ ,   USA   (07.19.11)
Sue whoever you want...always taking your idiotic thinking to the last level. Perhaps I'll file a suite for defamation Of Israels name AND THEREFORE THE JEWS right here In Los Angeles, thereby putting the lives of my children at risk due to the greatly raised level of anti-semitism these THUGS HAVE HELPED PERPETUATE through their deligitimization! Savages!
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