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Lieberman is riding the wave of three chronic crises the state is in - the political, military and judiciary leadership crisis; the radicalization of Israel's Arabs to the point of denying the Jewish nation's right to exist in its own state in the land of Israel; and the moral crisis, reflected in the arrogance, lack of integrity and double standards of the outspoken part of Israel's intelligentsia.
While justifying Arab extremism, even with its racist, violent demonstrations, this group presents Lieberman's reasonable and just demands - among his others - of the Arabs as racism. This includes the demand for national service and equality of duties, not only rights.
The ordinary citizen, who is not racist and sometimes isn't even right wing, cannot understand why calling on the Arabs to declare their loyalty to the state that protects them and provides them with education, welfare and medical services - unequalled in standard in many Western states, certainly in the Middle East - is "contrary to the democratic spirit." If that were the case, he says to himself, something is wrong with democracy and Lieberman is right.
The citizen is also outraged over the statement that democracy "never binds civilian rights with duties." This post-modernistic view may be acceptable in radical sociological literature, but the sense of natural justice rises against it. The UN's Declaration of Human Rights is not party to this approach either. The declaration's 29th clause stipulates explicitly, "Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible."
-commentary from Haaretz today
Daniel levy, a former Israeli negotiator discusses the implications of Israel's far right attempts at turning Israel into a ethnocracy.
Lieberman is riding the wave of three chronic crises the state is in - the political, military and judiciary leadership crisis; the radicalization of Israel's Arabs to the point of denying the Jewish nation's right to exist in its own state in the land of Israel; and the moral crisis, reflected in the arrogance, lack of integrity and double standards of the outspoken part of Israel's intelligentsia.
While justifying Arab extremism, even with its racist, violent demonstrations, this group presents Lieberman's reasonable and just demands - among his others - of the Arabs as racism. This includes the demand for national service and equality of duties, not only rights.
The ordinary citizen, who is not racist and sometimes isn't even right wing, cannot understand why calling on the Arabs to declare their loyalty to the state that protects them and provides them with education, welfare and medical services - unequalled in standard in many Western states, certainly in the Middle East - is "contrary to the democratic spirit." If that were the case, he says to himself, something is wrong with democracy and Lieberman is right.
The citizen is also outraged over the statement that democracy "never binds civilian rights with duties." This post-modernistic view may be acceptable in radical sociological literature, but the sense of natural justice rises against it. The UN's Declaration of Human Rights is not party to this approach either. The declaration's 29th clause stipulates explicitly, "Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible."
-commentary from Haaretz today
Lieberman is a racist extremist. Something need to be done towards such a bigot. Remember the extremist rabbi Kahane? He got his just desserts
Lieberman is a racist extremist. Something need to be done towards such a bigot. Remember the extremist rabbi Kahane? He got his just desserts
Takes one to know one, buddy.
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