Current Events > Israeli minister: relations with Trump are more important than calling out Nazis

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israeli-minister-Relations-with-Trump-are-more-important-than-calling-out-Nazis-502708

Israel must condemn Nazis but relations with US President Donald Trump are more important, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, who lately has been one of the ministers closest to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Netanyahu has faced criticism for not saying anything about what police said was a deliberate car-ramming into a group of people engaged in a counterprotest to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, until Tuesday, when he tweeted that he was “outraged by expressions of antisemitism, neo-Nazism and racism” and that “everyone should oppose this hatred.”

The prime minister has not commented on the issue since Trump reignited controversy on Tuesday when he blamed both sides for the violence in Charlottesville. But Kara, who sat next to Netanyahu at last week’s mass Likud rally at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, said Israel must defend Trump.

“Due to the terrific relations with the US, we need to put the declarations about the Nazis in the proper proportion,” Kara said. “We need to condemn antisemitism and any trace of Nazism, and I will do what I can as a minister to stop its spread. But Trump is the best US leader Israel has ever had. His relations with the prime minister of Israel are wonderful, and after enduring the terrible years of Obama, Trump is the unquestioned leader of the free world, and we must not accept anyone harming him.”

Kara praised Trump for having “a proven track record in opposing antisemitism and religious extremism.”

The statements by Kara, who made similar comments on the Knesset Channel, were immediately condemned by Knesset members.

“What Kara said was nonsense,” said Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai, who heads the Knesset caucus on strengthening relations with the US.

“Our relations with the US and with the president are important, but Israel also has a deep obligation to the American Jewish community. This is the time to prove our shared values and make unequivocally clear that Israel will fight antisemitism at any time and any place.”

Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit said, “Kara, Netanyahu and their government lost their way: Israel has to condemn Nazis, period, and it should insist that the US president and the administration should condemn Nazis and any form of antisemitism categorically and unequivocally.

Let us lead with moral conviction, not follow those who supported the racist!” Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On said that “because Trump paid lip service to the settlement enterprise, Netanyahu has made him into the messiah and has forgiven him for even the most shocking, homophobic, racist, and even antisemitic statements.”

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Bullet_Wing posted...

Is this satire? I can't believe I have to ask that

It is not satire. It is also not an isolated view: the PM's son says the left represents a bigger threat than neo-Nazis
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-junior-says-leftists-more-dangerous-than-neo-nazis/

Weighing in on the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a far-right march, and US President Donald Trump’s controversial statements that “both sides were to blame” for the deadly incident, Yair Netanyahu said he was far more concerned by leftist organizations that have recently come into public focus.

“To put things in perspective,” Netanyahu wrote on Facebook, “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out.

“However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.”

The Israeli premier himself tweeted Tuesday that he was “outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred,” after he was criticized for staying silent on Charlottesville.

In a response Wednesday afternoon to Yair Netanyahu’s comments, sources close to the prime minister said, “Yair is an adult and his views are his alone”

Trump’s stance was also supported by Likud MK Oren Hazan, who said Tuesday that the president “is right. Violence and extremism on any side is forbidden and demands condemnation. That doesn’t matter to the bleeding hearts on the left and in the media. After all, they believe that only the right is extremist and violent.”

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But he and most of his country are Jewish. The Nazis would wipe them off the map if they could...
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But Trump is the best US leader Israel has ever had. His relations with the prime minister of Israel are wonderful, and after enduring the terrible years of Obama, Trump is the unquestioned leader of the free world, and we must not accept anyone harming him.

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The fuck do I care what his son thinks?? Lol

Lol typical left being more offended than the actual victims
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Bat178 posted...

But he and most of his country are Jewish. The Nazis would wipe them off the map if they could...

Attitudes between Israel and these far-right elements are not as clear-cut as you might expect.
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BignutzisBack posted...

Lol typical regressive left being more offended than the actual victims

The left represents a growing intolerance of all the atrocities Israel is committing, so of course they're not concerned about a relatively small number of impotent Nazis in America. They're more worried about an America that no longer dances to their fiddle or turns a blind eye to their crimes against humanity, a possibility that will be reality without the GOP.

Bat178 posted...

But he and most of his country are Jewish. The Nazis would wipe them off the map if they could...

So do most muslim countries, but liberals want us to be nice to them.
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mario2000 posted...

But Trump is the best US leader Israel has ever had. His relations with the prime minister of Israel are wonderful, and after enduring the terrible years of Obama, Trump is the unquestioned leader of the free world, and we must not accept anyone harming him.

This guy is clearly a moron lmao
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...wtf?
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Antifar posted...

The prime minister has not commented on the issue since Trump reignited controversy on Tuesday when he blamed both sides for the violence in Charlottesville.

Yeah, because both sides were violent

What's the problem, exactly?
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friendship ended with ISRAEL


now IRAN is my best friend
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This is so sad
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Neo Nazis are basement dwellers and have no real power. He's absolutely right.

The sensationalist media is making a big deal out of Nazis but the truth is they're not even a blip on the radar.
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Trump denounced Nazis before the election, right after the election, and right after the Charlottesville riots.

Stop falling for fake news.
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Th3HonestTruth posted...

Isn't he right? International relationships between leaders is more important than calling out a minority of civilian idiots.

Appeasing a fat orange idiot is worth sacrificing the belief's of your people and the general foundation of your country.

He believes that Trump is one of these people or at least shares their beliefs enough to effectively beg Trump to let his country keep existing
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