Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumWhat the Likud's 14th-Ranked Knesset Candidate Thinks of Arabs
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"Bradley Burston did me a favor today by resurrecting a quote from Moshe Feiglin, the hard-right Israeli who is number 14 on the joint Likud-Yisrael Beyteinu Knesset list (meaning that he will certainly be a member of the next Knesset). I had forgotten about my interview with Feiglin nine years ago, which was part of my reporting for a New Yorker story on the settlement movement. It's quite a shocking quote, and it's disturbing to see that Feiglin is now a part of the Likud leadership. Here's the quote, in context:
Moshe Feiglin, a Likud activist who lives in a West Bank settlement and heads the Jewish Leadership bloc within the Party -- he controls nearly a hundred and fifty of the Likud central committee's three thousand members -- believes that the Bible, interpreted literally, should form the basis of Israel's legal system.
"Why should non-Jews have a say in the policy of a Jewish state?" Feiglin said to me. "For two thousand years, Jews dreamed of a Jewish state, not a democratic state. Democracy should serve the values of the state, not destroy them." In any case, Feiglin said, "You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches."
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/what-the-likuds-14th-ranked-knesset-candidate-thinks-of-arabs/266766/
Violet_Crumble
(35,955 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Who needs democracy when the deity is on your side.
LeftishBrit
(41,203 posts)Solindsey
(115 posts)The unhinged lunatics like this moron will be first in line to scream "Anti-Semitism!" when the same shit is said about Jews.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Sort of like bill o Reilly at fox news, he used to be the firebrand, now he's the most reasonable guy in the room.