Re: Baruch Goldstein and Ovadia Yosef
Shas is just one of several anti-Palestinian, pro-transfer parties in Israel, hardly on the lunatic fringe. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, "in the 1999 election, Shas won an unexpected 17 Knesset seats and, for the first time, posed a threat to the two leading parties." I agree that Yosef is considered a crackpot in most parts of Israel, just as Palestinian Islamic Jihad is considered a crackpot organization in most parts of the occupied territories. Israeli apologists such as yourself insist on pointing to the very existence of Palestinian rejectionism and racism as grounds for refusing political accomodation but make no apologies for the same attitudes within Israel. Indeed, like you do here, they often attempt to excuse or justify them. Its one of many racist double standards that Zionists persist on imposing upon the conflict.
"The sentiment of a nation cannot be expressed in generalizations, but rather the deeds of the persons."
Exactly. And Israel by its deeds has killed many times the number of civilians than Palestinian terrorists. If "deeds" are what renders the verdict, than Israel is much more of "terrorist" nation than the Palestinians are or ever were.
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