Cali_Democrat (23,454 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:21 PM
Netanyahu Expresses Alarm Over Strong Arab Voter Turnout
JERUSALEM — Increasingly worried that he could lose Tuesday’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at the country’s Arab voters, expressing alarm that a large turnout by them could determine the outcome. Opponents accused him of baldfaced racism.
Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks, in a video posted via social media, were seen by critics as the most strident in a series of assertions he has made in recent days to rally right-wing supporters to his argument that he is the only Israeli leader who will save the country from its enemies.
On Monday, Mr. Netanyahu said if his Likud faction was returned to power, he would never allow the creation of a Palestinian state, reversing a stance he had taken six years earlier. His statement was seen not only as validating Palestinian suspicions, but also risked further alienation between Mr. Netanyahu and the Obama administration.
Mr. Netanyahu also openly acknowledged having promoted a settlement over the 1967 lines in southeast Jerusalem in order to block the expansion of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and its connection with Jerusalem, something that critics said harmed the contiguity of any future Palestinian state.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-elections-arabs.html?_r=0
What a racist piece of shit Netanyahu is. Israeli Arabs are citizens and they have every right to vote.
Netanyahu and his party are like the GOP. The resemblance is uncanny. They hate it when brown people vote.
No wonder why GOPers were falling over themselves trying to kiss his ring when he came to the US.
Iliyah (5,207 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:37 PM
7. No surprise if BiBi will cries out voter fraud.
alcibiades_mystery (31,632 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:38 PM
8. This is worse than scare-mongering: he's doing two very dangerous things
1) Encouraging the extreme right to commit acts of violence against Arab citizens at or en route to polling places
2) Delegitimizing the result should he lose
Both are hallmarks of fascism.
AtheistCrusader (25,364 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:25 PM
13. Thanks for the preview of the election results, bibi.
Apparently, he's ****ed.
And he did it to himself.
geek tragedy (43,996 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:26 PM
14. No, he won. His scaremongering worked, because israel is a hideously racist country
AtheistCrusader (25,364 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:28 PM
15. Shit, really?
Wow, that is ****ing depressing. I would have bet money that sort of desperation showed a sure loss.
alcibiades_mystery (31,632 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:38 PM
8. This is worse than scare-mongering: he's doing two very dangerous things
1) Encouraging... acts of violence...
2) Delegitimizing the result should he lose
Both are hallmarks of fascism.
alcibiades_mystery (31,632 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 02:38 PM
8. This is worse than scare-mongering: he's doing two very dangerous things
1) Encouraging the extreme right to commit acts of violence against Arab citizens at or en route to polling places
2) Delegitimizing the result should he lose
Both are hallmarks of fascism.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at the country’s Arab voters, expressing alarm that a large turnout by them could determine the outcome. Opponents accused him of baldfaced racism.
Yet when democrats tell blacks that republicans will take away their freebies or put them back in chains, that's just GOTV messaging.
MosheFeingold (211 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:23 PM
directed to the primitive who originally posted this nonsense
18. I don't disagree with your post, but
"They hate it when brown people vote."
Mizrahim/Sephardic/Beta-Israel Jews (who make up most of the Jewish population in Israel 52.4%) have darker skins than most Arabs.
In fact, Beta-Israel (Jews from Ethiopia) would be called "black" in the USA.
There are many, many problems with what Bibi said, but nothing to do with melanin content of skin.
ELECTION WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE...