Excerpt from the program on July 19, 2015:
…Last Thursday the Prime Minister accused the International Criminal Court of hypocrisy for singling out Israel again over the Mavi Marmara incident of five years ago — as Assad in Syria drops barrels bombs and chemical weapons on his own people. Though I think Bibi’s choice of word “hypocrisy” is a cousin of his unfortunate Bar Ilan speech. “Hypocrisy” is not the right word in this situation. The right word is “antisemitism,” the smearing of Jews with guilt as a diversion or distraction away from the truly guilty elsewhere. Again, like Mordechai Kedar, I think Bibi is another Israeli who never experienced antisemitism in his formative years. Here was just yesterday Signorina — or is it Dottore? — Mogherini with a PhD in Political Science, erstwhile member of the Young Communist League or something, in Vienna smiling at the Iranians, giving them billions, smiling at their eventual A-bomb production then flying on her broomstick back to Brussels to address all foreign ministers in Europe as together they ponder what to do to us Jews, we stiff-necked crucifiers of the Ancient Palestinians for not handing back the land that we stole from them in 1967. I think Bibi is like other Israelis I have known and especially in his age cohort (basically mine) who not only did not experience antisemitism in their formative years, they were taught by secular Zionist culture that antisemitism was also to a serious degree the result of the Jews themselves and the way they mistreated the gentiles. Israelis like this sneer at the thought that the Jews were 100% innocent. They had to have had some role in having people hate them… |