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Bibi's aide: Kadima campaign Nazi-like

During radio debate, Likud chairman's strategic consultant Gil Samsonov compares Kadima's election campaign tactics to Goebbels'

Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu's strategic adviser Gil Samsonov compared Kadima's election campaign to Joseph Goebbels' Nazi propaganda and stirred a row.

 

The remark was made Tuesday afternoon during a debate between Samsonov and Kadima's strategic adviser Lior Horev on Israel Radio. Samsonov was upset over the alleged distortion of Netanyahu's picture and voice on Kadima's election campaign. This is how it sounded:

 

Samsonov: I suggest that people take a look at Goebbels' murderous campaign in the 1930's, open it up and see.

 

Horev: Gil, your incitement on this broadcast is over. Gil, you should be ashamed of yourself for this comparison… you are impertinent, one of a kind. Are you comparing a party to a Nazi party? You should be deeply ashamed of yourself. You are an unworthy person, you incite and agitate.

 

Samsonov: I won't let you say a word with you talking all the time.

 

Horev: You compared a Zionist party to a Nazi party, you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.

 

Samsonov: Look what a fascist campaign!

 

Horev: Apologize for the comparison you made!

 

Samsonov: I tell you something, we are too clean, too quiet, too sleepy. This simply can’t be… I didn’t compare to a Nazi party, I said it is a Goebbelsian propaganda… they are distorting Netanyahu’s image, distorting his voice. It is a style of the thirties. Not only am I not taking this back, I want listeners to hear what Lior Horev said.

 

Horev: I suggest to listeners who heard this to consider there is a prime minister adorning himself with labels which in my opinion aren’t expected from a Zionist party and the public will judge. Gil Samsonov did us a great favor. You are unworthy, your candidate is unworthy, and I think is the reason why Likud today is competing for being the fourth or fifth party in size – and thank God we rid ourselves from him.

 

'Samsonov should be dismissed'

 

Kadima demanded Likud Leader Benjamin Netanyahu apologize immediately in public for Samsonov’s comparing of Kadima to the Nazis. “If Netanyahu doesn’t apologize or dismiss his advisor, he will be in disgrace,” Kadima officials said.

 

Samsonov himself refused to apologize or be touched. “They are allowed to dirty, to curse, to lie and to slander – and we don’t reply?”

 

Speaking to Ynet after the incident he said: “What I said was that in Kadima’s propaganda they distort Netanyahu’s voice, they color his face red, and pop his eye out, they use Goebbels propaganda techniques. I did not mean they are Nazis or their party is Nazi, but it is clear to me they take it this way.”

 

Likud sources added: “He who worked for a fascist party in Romania (in a clear hint to Eyal Arad’s agency), should not be chocked from sayings that their methods are those of Goebbels. In conclusion, their methods are illegal.”

 


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