🚨 ‘Israel's opposition leaders must call out real outrages – while they still have a chance’ By Zehava Galon (former head of Meretz Party) Article 🧵 - ThreadSky

voices4justice.bsky.social • 12 days ago

🚨 ‘Israel's opposition leaders must call out real outrages – while they still have a chance’

By Zehava Galon (former head of Meretz Party)
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voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

If they don't dig deep inside themselves and find their consciences, they may not get the chance again.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Netanyahu and his ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

It's time for opposition lawmakers to come to their senses and stop acting as Netanyahu's willing servants. We've reached the 11th hour.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

What will happen when the government tries to prevent Golan from running for the Knesset? In the best case, they'll mutter that he's an extremist and belongs in Syria, but, well, we're a democracy. In the worst case, they'll once again vote according to the moral standards set by

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Why did opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, and even our honorable president, Isaac Herzog, rush to condemn Golan of all people? Where did they disappear to when far more deranged things were said here? This is what shocks them?

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

There are countless other examples. The only insanity greater than the fact that murderous scumbags like this aren't in prison is the performance of the opposition, which is crawling on its belly to meet the scumbags' deranged standards.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

"There's a commandment to destroy Amalek … and Gaza is Amalek, and we need to destroy the Amalekites." (Shimon Riklin, February 11, 2024)

"Every day we kill 100 terrorists? … There are 2.5 million terrorists there." (Eliyahu Yosian, February 25, 2024)

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

"We need to bomb indiscriminately. We make distinctions, and that isn't good. … The air force could work a little harder and not make distinctions between involved and uninvolved people." (Jacob Bardugo, November 2, 2023)

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Here are a few other examples from Channel 14. "Now there really needs to be total destruction. We shouldn't fear words like, say, 'humanitarian disaster.'" (Itamar Fleischmann, November 26, 2023)

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

the Democratic Bloc and the Movement for Fair Regulation – have filed a petition to the High Court via attorneys Michael Sfard and Einat Gayer demanding that criminal investigations be opened into such statements.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Nor was it an accident that Feiglin chose Channel 14 for his assertion that every baby in Gaza is an enemy. This channel is a sympathetic platform for such messages. Zulat and two other civil society organizations–

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

to save Israelis from that massacre.

And all this is happening in a country that, for nearly two years, has been silent in the face of clear calls for genocide. Such statements violate Israeli law, but in today's Israel, there is no penalty for them.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

And Thursday, Likud blamed him for the terror attack that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington.

All these zeros, thanks to whom a marginal terrorist organization managed to massacre many hundreds of Israelis, are now trying to ban a man who risked his life

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Pro-government Channel 14 television swiftly reported on a poll examining whether the public wanted Golan barred from the next election. The next day, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party announced that it planned to amend a Basic Law and bar Golan from running.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

He was referring to former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who plans to form a new party and run in the next election. And Likud's Tally Gotliv, who said this week that the hostages have been brainwashed by Hamas, deemed Golan's comment "aiding the enemy in wartime."

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, for example, wrote that "a sane country wouldn't allow guys like Yair Golan, Bennett's natural partner, to set foot in its parliament."

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Instead, we got the usual self-righteous condemnations, with one change: According to the latest talking points, Golan, the head of the left-leaning Democrats party, shouldn't be allowed to run in the next election.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

Those are the standards the cabinet is promoting. None of its members even bothered pretending they were shocked by Feiglin's comments, maybe because even they realize they live in glass houses.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

So calling for the murder of children is acceptable but explaining that this is insane is beyond the pale.

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

But that didn't interest the government at all.

"The enemy isn't Hamas, nor is it Hamas' military wing," our local Lao Tse said, explaining his doctrine as if he were the ancient Chinese philosopher. Lest there be any ambiguity, he added: "It's every child, every baby."

voices4justice.bsky.social•12 days ago

With the storm dying down, one thing is clear: If Yair Golan had called for the killing of babies in Gaza, no one in the cabinet would have flinched. I know this because, the same day Golan made his remarks, former far-right MK Moshe Feiglin said that every baby in Gaza is an enemy.

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