IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak on May 4, 2016 |
"If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany in particular, 70, 80, 90 years ago, and finding traces of them here in our midst, today, in 2016."
SOURCE: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.717948
THEN, a few days later...
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon explains his resignation at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on Friday, May 20, 2016 |
"Sadly, senior politicians in the country have chosen the way of incitement and segregation of parts of Israeli society instead of unifying it and bringing it together. It is unbearable to me that we will be divided among us out of cynicism and lust for control, and I expressed my opinion on the matter more than once out of honest concern for the future of society in Israel and the future of the next generations."
SOURCE: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720653
Ex-Israeli Prime Minister and Ex-Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak with wife Nili Priel |
Israel has been "infected by the seeds of fascism," former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak said during a TV interview on Friday night. (May 20, 2016)
Responding to the resignation of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon earlier in the day, Barak said that it "should be a red light for all of us regarding what's going on in the government."
Ya'alon's resignation is "the end of a chain that began with the case of the soldier who shot [a wounded Palestinian assailant to death], such incidents give us an X-ray image that is opposed to the will of the people."
"What has happened is a hostile takeover of the Israeli government by dangerous elements. And it's just the beginning."
"Life-sustaining Zionism and the seeds of fascism cannot live together," Barak told a Channel 10 interviewer.
SOURCE: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720715
Responding to the resignation of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon earlier in the day, Barak said that it "should be a red light for all of us regarding what's going on in the government."
Ya'alon's resignation is "the end of a chain that began with the case of the soldier who shot [a wounded Palestinian assailant to death], such incidents give us an X-ray image that is opposed to the will of the people."
"What has happened is a hostile takeover of the Israeli government by dangerous elements. And it's just the beginning."
"Life-sustaining Zionism and the seeds of fascism cannot live together," Barak told a Channel 10 interviewer.
SOURCE: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720715
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