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Israel’s Kingmaker in Legal LimboPosted on Feb 12, 2009
With his party holding 15 seats in the Knesset, Avigdor Lieberman of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu is poised to pick Israel’s next government. Lieberman would like a choice cabinet post in exchange for anointing the next premier, but he’s under investigation for allegedly laundering millions of overseas dollars.
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By Inherit The Wind, February 15 at 9:55 pm #
Folktruther, February 15 at 2:18 pm #
Well, inherit, I suppoe your at least mostly right. The Nuremburg Laws defined a new form of citizenship, Reich citizenship, of which Jews were excluded. Jews and others were considered ‘nationals’, not citizens.
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I hope posting that didn’t hurt too much! :poke:
(LOL!)
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So their is precedent for Israli de-citizening Arab citizens.
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Only if Israeli Jews wants to be associated with their slaughterers.
Report thisBy Kaiser Needlebaum, February 15 at 7:39 pm #
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90% of Israel approved of the Gaza Slaughter: So the usual “Kill the Darkies” mentallity from “The Light unto the world”. No change there.
The fact that Israel “lurched” to the right of an already right wing Israel, isn’t news to Palestinians.
If this degenerate Leiberman gangster is what Israelis want then that’s democracy. Ohhh yes, Hitler was elected too as German Chancelor.
The beligerant occupation of West Bank and Gaza has not only killed Palestinians but corrupted Israeli society. How long can any society live a lie?
Report thisAnd what do smiling Israeli Politicians offer? More dead Palestinian children. Welcome to Nuremberg.
By Folktruther, February 15 at 7:20 pm #
Nazi precedent.
Report thisBy Folktruther, February 15 at 7:18 pm #
Well, inherit, I suppoe your at least mostly right. The Nuremburg Laws defined a new form of citizenship, Reich citizenship, of which Jews were excluded. Jews and others were considered ‘nationals’, not citizens. So their is precedent for Israli de-citizening Arab citizens.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, February 15 at 11:34 am #
Folktruther, February 13 at 9:32 am #
This is largely how the American p;eple are deluded, confused and manipulated. By what the pseudo-progressive media DOESN’T SAY. Liberman is publically for revoking the citizenship of Arab Israeli citizens, which even Hitler didn’t do with the Jews. The truthdig piece gives the impression that Lieberman is a legitimate political leader like the rest who is having legal problems.
Of course the Isreali leaders, like the American leaders, are all a bunch of crooks. But while it is acceptable in the US for the powerful to steal in plain sight, like Madoff, apparently in Israel there is still some attempt to enforce the law. So the president of Israel was indicted for rape, the preimer for bribery, and now Lieberman for being financed by foreign (American?) investers.
The pseudo-progressive media do not provide a backgound power context formulated from the perspective of the population. Since the population does not possess a simple concise overview or outline of political events, they are all a blooming buzzing confusion. Allowing them to manipulated effectively by the media controlled by the ruling class, the whole point of the obfuscation and exclusion of the simple holistic truth.
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FolkTruther, you ridiculous ignoramus, you are wrong in your facts YET AGAIN!!!! (it’s a talent, a real gift)
Hitler most DEFINITELY revoked the citizenship of German Jews. It was one of his early “legal” steps that led to the Holocaust.
Saying that, I find Avigdor Lieberman to be repulsive. If it wasn’t so despicable, it would be laughable that a Russian immigrant seeks to remove the citizenship of Native-born Israelis—not able to pass the straight-faced test. But it’s not laughable. This son of a bitch is serious.
If I have any personal prejudice I need constantly to battle in myself, it’s Russians, regardless of whether Jew or Gentile. I guess I’ve just had more negative than positive interactions with them so I have to remind myself of the Rules: Judge by actions not stereotypes.
It would be SO much smarter if Israeli Jews would marginalize Lieberman and EMBRACE the non-Jewish citizens and establish legislation similar to the US’s Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts, to CONTINUALLY re-enforce that Israel treats all its citizens the same.
But, since it looks like Lieberman may be just another corrupt pol, a crook, he may well be on his way to jail.
Report thisBy abdo, February 15 at 7:18 am #
liberman and his company are not any king makers they are rather grave diggers. Their policy will only result in moor death and destruction.
Report thisBy lester333, February 14 at 8:08 pm #
I knew Joe was a damn imposter!
Report thisBy Kaiser Needlebaum, February 14 at 8:48 am #
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This gangster from Russia is an Israeli Politician?
atriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
What did Dr Johnson say?
This beady eyed rascal fits the bill.
Is this the best of Israel? If he is
the best, god knows what the worst must look like.
Ohhhhh Israel, what have you become?
Report thisBy Peter Irving, February 14 at 6:57 am #
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Poster above me you don’t even know what zionism is, not like hamas hasn’t done anything terrible.
On topic I hope they throw this asshole in jail they should throw his entire party in jail bunch of fascists they only endanger Israels existence.
Report thisBy nefertiti, February 13 at 6:05 pm #
He was also a member of an outlawed Group Kach
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061350.html
Report thisBy Folktruther, February 13 at 2:32 pm #
This is largely how the American p;eple are deluded, confused and manipulated. By what the pseudo-progressive media DOESN’T SAY. Liberman is publically for revoking the citizenship of Arab Israeli citizens, which even Hitler didn’t do with the Jews. The truthdig piece gives the impression that Lieberman is a legitimate political leader like the rest who is having legal problems.
Of course the Isreali leaders, like the American leaders, are all a bunch of crooks. But while it is acceptable in the US for the powerful to steal in plain sight, like Madoff, apparently in Israel there is still some attempt to enforce the law. So the president of Israel was indicted for rape, the preimer for bribery, and now Lieberman for being financed by foreign (American?) investers.
The pseudo-progressive media do not provide a backgound power context formulated from the perspective of the population. Since the population does not possess a simple concise overview or outline of political events, they are all a blooming buzzing confusion. Allowing them to manipulated effectively by the media controlled by the ruling class, the whole point of the obfuscation and exclusion of the simple holistic truth.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, February 13 at 12:24 pm #
As if it’s not bad enough that this son of a bitch Lieberman is a notorious racist bigot, he is also a notorious economic terrorist involved in open corruption and money laundering, like his fellow evil Zionist brother Bernard Madoff.
So those are the cream of the crop Zionism continues to produce in Israel to rule it and spread corruption on God’s Earth: a bunch pf previous notorious terrorists, such as Shamir, Begin, Sharon, and Levni’s father, and present corrupt racist bigots and militants such as Olmert, Barack, Levni, and Lieberman.
As I reflect on this continued tragic situation of which the Palestinians were targeted to be its main victims initially, it seems that many others, including Americans, will continue to be both victims and fuel for the Zionist raging fires.
And I sadly continue to remember Voltaire words:
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sounds of trumpets.”
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