By Ted Belman
David Horowitz of the Times of Israel in his article “Ashamed of Netanyahu”, writes about Bibi’s Arab remark that everybody is beating Netanyahu up about,
“I’m ashamed of my prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for the depths to which he stooped in maximizing his election victory. I’ve watched those 20 seconds of incendiary rhetoric he posted on election day over and over again: “The rule of the political right is in danger. The Arab voters are moving in vast numbers to the polling stations. The left-wing NGOs are busing them in…”
I am not ashamed. I see nothing inappropriate about this remark. Its like Republicans urging their fellows Republicans to get out the vote because the Democrats are going to great lengths to do so. What difference dose it make if in our case, its the Arabs that threaten our rule rather than the democrats.
In both cases, the others who ever they may be, are threatening our rule, whether they be Labourites or Arabs, and Bibi is entirely within bounds to warn that this is happening to get out his own vote.
Dror Edar comments in Who’s the racist?
You get the feeling that the election isn’t over. The Left’s “introspection” since the results were announces points to its next loss. The main points: those who voted for the Right are little children who understand nothing and can be led by the nose. They have no ideology, no worldview, no serious take on reality. In fact, they are just a bundle of emotion, a bunch of homeless in need of a warm ideological home. And yes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “frightened the public” — unbelievable; have we not heard constantly for the past three months that Netanyahu being elected will hasten the end of the state and the end of the universe itself?
What remains after the soul-searching that never took place? “Netanyahu said that the Arabs are at our door.” Are you serious? This is what was said on election day: “The government of the Right is in danger. The Arab voters are turning up at the polls en masse. The left-wing groups are busing them in.” What’s the problem? Not “Arabs are at our door” and not “a swarm of Arabs is surrounding us,” as Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog put it, but “the Arab voters.” Anyone who thinks that’s racism is the real racist, because they assume that “Arabs” is a pejorative term. Did anyone cast doubt on their right to vote?
Yes, the Joint Arab List posed a threat to the Right’s chances of winning; there is history here. Not by chance were the leftist groups providing the Arab voters with transportation. The Left was counting on stymieing the prime minister through an informal electoral bloc that would include the Arab parties, but not include its MKs in any government that would be formed. Use them and toss them. So who here is the racist?
Treating the Joint Arab List voters like political opponents — who head out to vote to use their right to replace the government — is much more respectful than the racist way some of the Left treated residents of the periphery: like employees, like people who don’t understand anything, like homeless in need of a warm home, who vote “like battered women.” “Arab voters” is also much more respectful than “the settlers” or “the religious” or “the ultra-Orthodox.”
Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni, incidentally, who accused Netanyahu of using scare tactics, herself threatened the citizens of Israel that electing a right-wing government would lead to “Israel becoming an Arab country.” She went on to quote someone who said, “We didn’t make aliyah so there would be an Arab country here,” and to sum it up announced the raison d’être of the heads of the leading party on the Israel Left. Take note: “We are motivated by the fear that Netanyahu is leading us toward an Arab country.” So Tzipi Livni is declaring that the Arabs among us represent a threat. She didn’t say it in the heat of election day, but calmly and coolly two days later. Send those words to U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.
Well then, representatives of the Joint Arab List: Based on that platform, that the biggest threat to Israel is “an Arab country,” did you intend to recommend to the president that Livni and Herzog form the next government?
bernard ross Said:
This is where the right to bear arms has some meaning. The British police probably took the long way there – Jews need to arm themselves in Europe and UK and carry at all times.
Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
obama is not upset about this
gotta love that religion of peace and hate BB
Its an educational religion, even academics love it
But some dont get its message:
British pogroms on the Jews caused by British institutionalized libels and incitements to pogrom
Europeans who speak lies about Israel and zionists are well aware of their history of libels leading to pogrom and genocide. Hence, they are intentionally lying in order to incite pogrom and genocide against Jews. Jewish children are being slaughtered as a result of incitement of liars like these. These liars are as guilty as the terrorists and should be brought to justice like eichmann and the Munich terrorists. their lying incitements are not freedom of speech but an attempted murder and genocide of Jewish children. The should be treated accordingly.
but will the Guardian print the truth or continue to lie in its quest to murder Jewish children?
Did BB call to kill the arabs? obama is upset with BB but everyday arab/muslim leaders call to kill the Jews even in their mosques and Obama is not upset
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=14346
http://www.timesofisrael.com/yemen-worshipers-were-cursing-jews-when-mosque-blown-up/
woolymammoth Said:
lol “truth” – I didn’t know there was such a thing on the holy altar here. I just extrapolated the most likely future scenarios and you have no rational counter argument or counter prediction. In fact I haven’t seen any future predictions whatsoever. You and some others here are very afraid to examine the future course of history – what fantasy did you people really expect – endless detente? That is absurd!
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Israel refuses or simply cannot unify it’s resolve as a people and exterminate Hezbollah and Hamas when they have the opportunity, North America refuses to recognize the Jihad of Islam and allows Islamic immigrants to literally pour in unrestricted and unexamined.
How could the future Isalmopocalypse be any clearer? Just look at Eurabia and multiply that by an endgame.
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A “leftist” commenter engaged in subversion and false flag commenting – a supreme danger to Israpundit because of my thoughts!
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And Wooly, you think I’m twisted? lol I invite you to be my monitor – it might do you a lot of good!
Ted, I suspect “Max” is leftist activist whose specialty is perverting the truth and engaging in crazy making. I suggest he be closely monitored or better yet banished. I remember this character from another blog. His aim is to confuse and infuriate. It may be connected with previous efforts to crash your site. beware, I smell a rat.
ArnoldHarris Said:
But actually you don’t think my POV is irrational because you have no rational , calm relaxed rational counter-argument . In fact you are merely making a very angry, fearful personal attack. I made a very logical prediction based on an understanding of the irrationality of human beings now going into overdrive and on historical precedent. Why it provokes an angry, hostile, fearful, irrational response in yourself is something you should think about.
The inability of the weak intellect of the masses to think the unthinkable ensures that it will happen,.
When it all goes down , when the next multiple WMD attack occurs to America, when the next equivalent of being stuffed in a boxcar happens to you, just remember – “I told you so”.
@ dove:
@ Yidvocate:
Actually, I thought I was the only certifiably insane commenter on Israpundit. Then I read Max’s expectations of the Moslems destroying both the USA and Israel, piled on by Russia and China fighting it out with the Shi’a and the assorted Kalifs for the conquest of the world.
Damn! There goes my championship title.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Who are the racists?
Why hasn’t anyone from the Likud or, for that, matter any party in the Israeli government taken the time to explain and elaborate about ‘who’ constitutes the “United Arab List?”
The UAL are subversive, treasonous ‘MKs’ who aspire and seek to dismantle and destroy Israel by using the Israeli electoral system. These Arab parties are: Communists, Anarchists,Socialists and Islamists who rarely agree with each other about anything other than to undermine and destroy Israel. The UAL is suported by the like of Hamas and Hizballah as well as other entities that oppose the existence of Israel. In essence, these are perfidious, treasonous, 5th Columnists who are given a voice ( this demonstrates a profound weakness in the Israeli Parliamentary system of government – in the absence of a Constitution).
In the U.S., for example, all politicians elected to three separate, but equal branches of government, are required to take a public oath to ‘protect and defend’ the Constitution of the U. S.
The Israeli government has no such requirement or ‘safeguard.’
I ask, once again, who are the racists?
Answer – The UAL and those who support and advocate for them.
Anyone who now accuses BIBI of being a racist, and is not a member or supporter of the UAL, is a RANK HYPOCRITE and CRETIN!
Ashamed of WHAT??? If only McCain or Romney would have said similar things in 08 or ’12, we’d have a different guy in the WH.
Netanyahu did nothing wrong, except bringing out MORE people to vote…..Hey, isn’t that the left’s mantra? Or is only bringing out the preferred people they want to vote.
@ Yidvocate:
That’s funny. That’s exactly how I feel sometimes. We can see the conspiracy here in Canada too – especially on MSM in an attempt to oust Harper. Coincidence? Not likely.
Just like in WWII get rid of the Jews and their supporters FIRST and then you have more of a chance conquering the world.
Am I the only sane person left on the planet? It was the Left and the Obama squad that was rounding up – THE ARABS, not Bibi who was in effect calling them out on it and that makes Bibi the racist? Seems so in this Orwellian world we live in these days.
A lot of cringers out there, Ted. Some would even describe themselves as being on the Right.
Here are the two videos: it’s clear as day that the onus is on foreign money and V15, not the fact that the Arabs are voting (!).
I’ve posted this link everywhere I could and it is as I was blowing in the wind:
– either people ignore it and keep spewing the propaganda;
– or ppl notice but 3 days later keep spewing the propaganda.
* facepalm *
And now Rivlin is piling on too.
These people have no shame.
http://therightscoop.com/netanyahu-arab-voters-supported-by-foreign-money-are-coming-out-in-droves/
This is what I wrote in the Times of Israel.
I agree. I think his remark is deliberately being taken out of context.