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“It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if
possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.” - Avigdor Lieberman
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/898391] |
“It would be better to
drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest
point in the world.”
Avigdor Lieberman (Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן, IPA: [aviɡˈdor ˈliberman], About this sound
(audio) (help·info); born Evet Lvovich Liberman, Russian: Эве́т Льво́вич
Ли́берман, 5 July 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who serves as the
Defense Minister of Israel. He served as Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs
from 2009 to 2012, and again from 2013 to 2015. He has also served as member of
the Knesset and as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
He is the
founder and leader of the secular-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose
electoral base are overwhelmingly Russian-speaking immigrants from the former
Soviet Union. As a result of the arrival in Israel during the 1990s of more
than one million Russian-speaking immigrants, Yisrael Beiteinu has regularly
played the 'king-maker' role in Israel's coalition governments.
Lieberman
first entered the Knesset in 1999, and has since served in numerous roles in
the government, including as Minister of National Infrastructure, Minister of
Transportation, Minister of Strategic Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign
Affairs Minister, and Minister of Defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman
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woman holds up a sign with ‘Too many terrorists in prison’ written on one side
and ‘Kill them all’ written on the other during a rally in Tel Aviv on April
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Avigdor
Lieberman Roundup: Most Outlandish Public Statements
Israeli’s new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
has been making the news almost daily for his often hawkish comments. Today he
said Israel should shift its focus from the Palestinians to the Iranians,
according to Press TV. “The
biggest problem isn’t the Palestinians, but the Iranians,” he said.
The following is a quick roundup of Lieberman’s
most incendiary, offensive, reprehensible, obnoxious, abhorrent, heinous and
invidious statements over the years. Lieberman has been described by the
notable Hebrew University professor Ze’ev Sternhell as, “perhaps the most dangerous
politician in the history of the state of Israel.” The following are
some of the windbag FM’s most outrageous, but bear in mind that this list is by
no means exhaustive.
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1. In 2002, following terrorist attacks on Israelis,
Lieberman called for military attacks on Palestinian civilian and commercial
targets, saying: “If it were up to me I would
notify the Palestinian Authority tomorrow at ten in the morning we would bomb
all their places of business in Ramallah, for example.”...“I would not hesitate to send
the Israeli army into all of Area A [the area of the West Bank ostensibly under
Palestinian Authority control] for 48 hours. Destroy the foundation of all the
authority’s military infrastructure, all of the police buildings, the arsenals,
all the posts of the security forces... not leave one stone on another. Destroy
everything.”
2. In 2003, following Sharon granting amnesty to 250
Palestinian prisoners, Lieberman called for mass executions, saying: “ It would be better to drown
these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in
the world.”
3. In 2006, Lieberman called for the execution of
Arab Knesset members who met with Hamas representatives, saying: “World War II ended with the
Nurenberg trials. The heads of the Nazi regime, along with their collaborators,
were executed. I hope this will be the fate of the collaborators in [the Knesset].”
4. Also in 2006, Lieberman declared explicitly that
Jewish and Zionist values trump all others, saying: “The vision I would like to
see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much
favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and
Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.”
5. In early 2009, during the Israeli “Cast Lead”
incursion into Gaza, Lieberman made the historical argument that total nuclear
destruction of a state is more economical than occupation, saying: “We must continue to fight
Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II. Then,
too, the occupation of the country was unnecessary.”
6. In April of 2009, Lieberman called for Israel to
disregard past peace efforts, namely the Annapolis peace talks initiated under
Bush, saying: “There is one document that
obligates us — and that’s not the Annapolis conference, it has no validity.”
For more HuffPost stories on Lieberman, go to the Avigdor Lieberman Big News
Page.
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But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women
childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel
hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
- I Samuel 15:33 (NKJV)
Samuel kills Agag
Artist: MERIAN, Matthaeus the Elder [PHOTO SOURCE: http://colonialart.org/artworks/571A] |
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