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An election sign of Shas party with the picture of Avigdor Liberman the leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party. December 11, 2012. Photo by Oren Nahshon / FLASH90Israel - Yoel Hasson of Tzipi Livni’s “Hatnua” party blasted Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday for comparing European diplomacy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Holocaust.
“Liberman’s scandalous comparison of the Holocaust to Europe’s diplomatic relationship with Israel today is a dangerous political step,” Hasson said, adding that it would endanger one of Israel’s best and most important relationships.
The Israeli public, he continued should know that “Israel’s friends in Europe have not lost faith in the state of Israel, but in the government of Israel.”
In an interview with Israel Radio earlier in the day, Liberman said, “I’m not pleased with Europe’s position that again, again in history, ignores calls to annihilate the nation of Israel.” Hamas, he said, missed no opportunity to clearly state their objective of annihilating the state of Israel, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, he insisted, supported that position.
“We already went through this Europe at the end of the 30s, in the 40s. They are sacrificing all their values in favor of their interests. Even then, in the 40s they knew what was going on with the concentration camps, to the Jews, and they didn’t exactly act,” Liberman said.
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Dec 11, 2012 at 10:03 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
So what did he say thats not fact?
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Dec 11, 2012 at 11:21 AM joeynathan Says:Report as Inappropriate
"good" lets give the Europeans a guilt trip , then maybe they will do something about Iran.
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Dec 11, 2012 at 01:50 PM cmvasquez Says:Report as Inappropriate
More important...England and all of Europe need to look back at Lord Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, and perhaps Edward, Duke of Windsor. Those who forget history...
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Dec 11, 2012 at 02:22 PM ShmuelG Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ So what did he say thats not fact? ”
Avigdor Liberman says many things that are either facts or common sense. But it's not what he says, it's who says it. Avigdor Liberman is right wing and a "hardliner" (and the fact that he is Russian doesn't help). In other words, a lightning rod for sniveling leftists like Yoel Hasson or Tzipi Livni. (You think they are any better than our own Democretes? Maybe, but not much.) And there is an election going on there, in which the snivelers have not a slightest chance, but they desperately need to attract attention. ANY attention.
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Dec 11, 2012 at 03:17 PM He is right Says:Report as Inappropriate
He is right and those that say that we should not always cry wolf; well those that hate us always will, no matter what we do or say.
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Dec 11, 2012 at 03:24 PM Sarak Says:Report as Inappropriate
he is right!