Israeli rightist proposes the ONLY way to save Israel…

… and is attacked as a racist and Nazi.

As reported by Ha’aretz, Knesset member Effi Eitam of the National Union-National Religious Party said in a broadcast speech Monday that

the great majority of Palestinians in the West Bank should be expelled, and that Arabs should be ousted from Israeli politics as a fifth column and “a league of traitors.” … It was the first time that Eitam, who heads the Religious Zionism faction within the National Union, has publicly supported deportation of Palestinians, a concept espoused by assassinated National Union founder Rehavam Ze’evi as “transfer.”

Ha’aretz goes on to say that outraged leftist politicians are calling for a prosecution for Eitam for incitement to racism (a law that exists all through Europe; I didn’t realize that Israel had it, too).

Again, the left shows how it wants to transform positions on political issues, even the most existential issues a country can face, into violations of liberal equality, and hence into crimes, thus banning politics and even national defense itself.

I touched on this liberal attack on politics in The Path to National Suicide when I wrote:

Robert Kennedy said in 1965: “This is the central problem of immigration today; that the law … has not recognized that one people is not intrinsically superior or inferior to another people.” But Kennedy was wrong. The paramount moral issue the United States faces is not racial superiority but self-preservation.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 11, 2006 01:15 PM | Send