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Leftist march of folly
Ron Breiman
Published: 22.10.10, 00:39
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1. Let's find out the truth about Rabin's assassination.
Chaim ,   Israel   (10.22.10)
The misuse of Rabin's memory to stir hostility against Israel's rightist majority is particularly disgusting because it's far from clear rightists are guilty, in the first place. Leftists had, by far, the most to gain from Rabin's death. Moreover, there are hundreds of serious inconsistencies with the "lone rightist" theory. Israel must know the truth about Rabin's assassination. We must have a real investigation and clear up the inconsistencies.
2. Israel democracy?
David ,   USA/ISRAEL/EGYPT   (10.22.10)
Why do we have a yearly memorial for Rabin and not for Rehavan Zeevi and Rabbi Meir Kahane They were both assassinated and they were both Keneset members. Why democracy is only for the left?
3. Israeli version of Halloween
Ilan ,   Ariel   (10.22.10)
It has as much dignity and importance as another gathering of adults in costumes yelling boo
4. truth, at last!!! and very right!!!
henya   (10.22.10)
5. The annual display of fake tears are being used time and
Al   (10.22.10)
again to disparage the Nationalistic community, along with the religious community. What the now radical left doesnt seem to understand is that the longer they engage in these activities the more people disengage them them in the long run. The labor party is history...the party of Eshkol is gone. Barak is a dufus of a man...other than his arrogance there is nothing remarkable about him. Peres is an Israeli version of Jimmy Carter...we are polite to him, other than that he is like an old fart that doesnt go away. Netanyahu cant find his way...a wannabee pleaser with no real backbone..and no clear idea of where he wants Ìsrael to be. The nationalists know where Israel should be and in time they will be the majority. They will take power and they will determine Israels future. The one thing Israel has going for itself is the fact that the people dont give a damn about the government and so they continue to produce and sell and in many cases, are becoming wealthy..all a very good sign. AS for those who depend on government to live and eat...well thats just bloody too bad.. The one who feeds you often demands how you live and think as well.
6. #1 Sure, but you`ll have to wait 40 years
Nora Tel Aviv   (10.22.10)
All those waiting for the answers to hudreds of questions of the Rabin`s assassination are gently required to wait another 40 years, the time necessary for the post-Peres period.
7. Israel's democracy
Golan ,   Modiin   (10.22.10)
We live in a country where the unelected courts legislate and veto legislation by the democratically elected government. There is too much power in the hands of the government which has shown willingness to expel people from their homes based on ethnic identification, stop commerce to appease a unfriendly foreign government without due compensation, we are not allowed to own guns, or even use them in reasonable self defense and must prove out innocence from jail. Our bureaucracy on steroids give too much ultimate power to too man incompetents and corrupt on multilevel government workers... and there is no constitution that limits the above. So yes we get the vote, and yet what is the point? The court of injustice decides.
8. Rabin was shaking hands with an arch-terrorist
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (10.22.10)
And surprisingly there are still people who think that would bring peace.
9. An excellent article. Blunt,to the point,and filled with
much truth. ,   Rueben,Israel   (10.22.10)
10. Leftists, rightists, leftists, rightists ...
berlonski ,   berlin   (10.22.10)
... and more leftists, rightigts for ever ... what's the purpose of this blame game which is going on in the Israeli media every day and seemingly forever? Is Israeli politics just a soccer match about if the leftist or the rightist team will win? What a happy country that has no other problems ...
11. Indeed, EXCELLENT ARTICLE!
Batya ,   Tel-Aviv   (10.22.10)
12. Dura, Rabin,Kennedy,Oslo, What Next?
Dav Lev ,   Burbank.CAUSA   (10.23.10)
An antiSemite the other day ( met at a local supermarket), told me that Israeli youth are indoctrinated in the military, which they join before graduating from schools., unlike the nice Jewish boys and girls in the USA. He then said, most Jewish youth dont know who they are. HIs diatribe went back to WW2, when he said Hitler only stopped Jewish hoarding of money..and the Rosenbergs gave Russia the bomb in the 1950s. He reminded me of what there is out there..65 yrs after WW2 and the Holocaust. Now, the Arabs want to change history, as if 10 wars were never fought for its existence. Extortion galore..these Arabs are good at it. The game theory par excellance. Yet 5.5m Israeli Jews..left vs right, vs vs,vs, vs. Who killed Rabin..like who killed Kennedy.The Dura affair is alive and kicking. 13 Israeli Arabs killed 10 years ago, and now they want to open the case against the IDF? Im glad I dont live Israel to be honest. My concerns..the Yankees vs who?
13. :: perlonki, berlonski, perlin, berlin capital of Nazism
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (10.23.10)
What an idiot!
14. Leftist March
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.23.10)
Ron Breiman ! Are you insinuating that the crazies are right ?,that Rabin ordered his own killing,in order to besmirch the settlers,you are insane,by the way, the first prime Minister who spoke to Arafat,was Yitzhak Shamir,a rightist patriot,who negotiated with the palestinians at Madrid during the first intifada,you tend to forget the uprising of the muslims in Algeria against the French,started with stones and ended with 30,000 dead French soldiers,do you believe that Israel was better equipped to rule over the palestinians than the French ?,true,Arafat was a terrorist,a squoundrel,but the second generation,like Burguthy,and Dachlan, Erekat,wanted a settelment to the conflict,The Americans negotiated with north Viet Nam while North Viet Nam was killing American Soldiers,the fact that the peaple of Israel did't like Rabin or Oslo,doesn't mean that Rabin was wrong,when the Erev Rabanim issued a Fatwa (rodef nirdaf) against Rabin,and based on that Fatwa the monster executed Rabin, the settlers shot themselves in the foot,because Rabin was the strongest supporter of the settlers,do you believe ? by the end of the day the settlers will get more land than if Rabin had been alive and Oslo continued.
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