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Aug 5, 2020 • 33 tweets • 10 min read
Some Israeli public figures responded to the #BeirutBlast with calls for aid & solidarity.
Ron Huldai, Mayor of #TelAviv, announced that City Hall will be lit with the colors of #Lebanon's flag.
Others have responded with their usual mix of racism & nationalism.
Thread👇 Image Huldai said: "Humanity precedes any conflict, and our hearts are with the Lebanese people following the terrible disaster it experienced"
haaretz.com/israel-news/te…
May 14, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a prominent rabbi was asked if Baruch Goldstein, a murderous terrorist who opened fire in the Cave of the Patriarchs, killed 29 & wounded 125 people, is a detestable murderer?
His response: Goldstein was wrong but he's a saint.
Full Context & Translation👇 Baruch Goldstein was a member of the Jewish Defense League founded by his acquittance Meir #Kahana which was classified by the FBI in 2001 as a right wing terrorist group.
He immigrated to #Israel in `83 and was third on the now outlawed Kach party in `84.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Go…
Mar 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Senior Netanyahu aide & confidante Natan Eshel: "hate is what unites our camp."
"The people disengage from everything else, we have to keep going for this conflict."
Recordings aired before the elections reveal some of the thinking behind Likud strategy.
Further translations 👇 ImageImage Natan Eshel: "Now, this public – let me call it the non-Ashkenazi public, right? – what sets it on fire? [It's like] 'Them? They'll do what? We'll show them!' Why do they hate the media? […] They hate everything. This hate is what unites our camp."