Former Israeli Minister - 'We've Become Barbarians'
"'The year 2002 was the worst in the state's history, not because of problems related to security, economy and corruption; it was the year of moral degeneration .."
-- Shulamit Aloni, Former Israeli Minister Of Education
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM -- A former Israeli cabinet minister and founder of the liberal-oriented Meretz party has castigated the current state of affairs in the Jewish state, saying Israeli Jews effectively have became barbarians in the year 2002.
Shulamit Aloni, former Minister of Education, was quoted by the Israeli newspaper Yedeot Ahranot Wednesday as saying the year 2002 was "the worst in Israel's history."
"The year 2002 was the worst in the state's history, not because of problems related to security, economy and corruption; it was the year of moral degeneration during which we became an apartheid state, it was the year in which the government's legal advisor began burying the democratic system."
Aloni especially lambasted the Israeli government for adopting conspicuously-brazen discriminatory actions against Israel's growing Arab community.
"In the year 2002, Israel sought to negate the rights of the Arab community, they censored a film on Jenin, they closed down an Arab newspaper and they barred an Arab political party from taking part in the elections."
Aloni argued that the year 2002 was the "worst ever from the moral view point."
"We transformed ourselves into barbarians; we turned 3.5 million human beings into hostages, we turned every town and village into a detention camp; we destroy ancient buildings dating back 800 years in order to build a parkway and allowed an officer to decide to destroy an entire neighborhood with a mere hand signal"
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By the way, the original Jewish state was called "Judea." The Israel of old was in a completely different geographical area than the modern day socialist state that passes itself off as a free country.
The Chinese in Hong Kong should have fled to Israel, taken it over and turned it into a free capitalist state when the Communists took over Hong Kong.
As an American, if I purchased a home in the "occupied territories" and one morning woke up to the Israeli Army bulldozing my property down to build condominiums for "settlers," I would go to war against Israel too -- with every means at my disposal.
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