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Cabinet ministers on "TRASFER", a year agoMonday 30 Dec 2002
author: from GUSH ad
The following text was published as Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz, Dec. 28, 2001.
"DER STURMER" IN THE KNESSET
Minister Danny Naveh has thrown a stink bomb in the
Knesset. He alleged that Arafat's Muslim soldiers raped
Christian girls in Bethlehem, an allegation reminiscent
of the style of Der Sturmer, the German paper that
mixed anti-Semitic incitement with pornography.
Before that, Minister Benny Eilon, writing in the
settlers' paper, advocated the expulsion ("transfer") of
the Palestinians from the occupied territories.
Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in a popular television
program, called for the expulsion of Israel's Arab
citizens.
These are not "wild plants" or "marginal elements".
These proposals were made by Cabinet Ministers. They
are accepted as a legitimate part of the public
discourse, without protest or condemnation. Neither
the President nor the Prime Minister has distanced
himself from them. The Attorney General, too, is silent.
This is a corruption of the State of Israel, a threat to its
democratic foundations, a degeneration of the political
system, a psychological preparation for horrible war
crimes.