VIEWPOINT: Israel's merry band of Klansmen, the extreme right

[IndianaGreen]

Last update - 02:39 16/12/2008

VIEWPOINT: Israel's merry band of Klansmen, the extreme right

By Benjamin L. Hartman

The extreme right's instigator-in-chief, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told Haaretz this week that the decision to cancel a march planned to take place in Umm al-Fahm, Israel's second largest Arab city, was a violation of freedom of speech.

Marches of this sort are incendiary and pointless, but the worst of all, and the ones that most resemble the attempted Umm al-Fahm march, are the repeated attempts by the KKK to march through Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Illinois that not coincidentally houses a sizable community of Holocaust survivors.

In such a case, the desire to march has nothing to do with protest, or the protection of individual rights, but is rather a cynical attempt to publicly denigrate and offend the sensitivities of an entire community. Ben-Gvir claimed a liberal, anti-right wing double-standard was at play. How else can one explain the decision to allow a gay pride parade in Jerusalem, or to allow far-left activists to hold protest marches in Hebron, while Israeli patriots such as he were barred from marching through Israel's second largest Arab city?

An appeal to the principles of a liberal western democracy is ironic coming from an Israeli fascist, much more so from one who if he and his ilk had the way would expel all Arabs from Israel, on the way to making Israel gentilerein and forever a rogue state relegated to the eventual dustbin of history.

For such people to compare themselves to those who sought to march in Jerusalem in order to express their desire to live as an equal, fully recognized community in Israel regardless of their sexual preference, would be funny if it weren't true.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046765.html

[aquart]

1. Israel is, of course, the only nation with an extreme right wing.

Which is why it requires our attention.

[IndianaGreen]

2. The Likud is an extreme right wing party

It is so extreme that Ariel Sharon ditched them and founded the current ruling party Kadima. No accident that the leader of Likud, Bibi Netanyahu, remains the darling of the American Christian Right and the neocons.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Guess Netanyahu plans to be invited to the rapture.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The problem is that in Christian eschatology, there is no room for Jews

They need an Israel in order for the Second Coming (they are still in denial about Jesus' death at the hands of the Roman Occupation). But once the Second Coming becomes a reality, those that refused to accept Jesus as god will be slain (think of it as a Christian version of the Holocaust).

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Perhaps he will do whatever it takes to be raptured along with his pals.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Nyet, only Christians are raptured (the right kind!)

and only the Christians that meet the criteria of those religious leaders that peddle this crap. Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Anglicans, and other mainstream denominations do not meet the criteria for the rapture. Unitarians are going to burn in hell! :eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

8. All those rapturees will be pretty lonesome with so few of them going...

[IndianaGreen]

9. I'll be at the local pub

Toasting to our being rid of the whole lot of them!

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I will be searchng for a nice new Subaru Outback with the keys still in the ignition...

:D

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Yes, that's exactly the point that IG was making.

:eyes:

[LeftishBrit]

12. Well, this is I/P - or was it relocated from an upstairs forum?

Anyway, they are around everywhere and disgusting everywhere. In Israel, they may be more of a danger than in some places, as there is more of a powder-keg that can be inflamed by extremists on all sides.

But we have such types too. If anyone wants to buy the BNP, or even take it off our hands for free, please do so!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. This just proves that fanatics are the scourge of EVERY group, and sadly

they do exist in every group.