Bennett Urges 'Zero Tolerance' For Israeli Arabs' National Aspirations

[Purveyor]

Economy minister speaks at Kohelet Policy Forum conference, which aims to secure in law the concept of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People.

By Yair Ettinger | Feb. 23, 2014

Israel should have zero tolerance for the national aspirations of Israeli Arabs, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) said on Sunday. The minister added that Judaization of the Galilee and Negev are entirely in line with Israel's values.

Bennett was speaking at a conference of the the Kohelet Policy Forum, which aims to secure the future of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People. He was one of five ministers who attended the conference, which was entitled "Israel's identity as the Jewish nation state, as a matter of law."

Speaking at the same conference, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said "My definition is Israel as a Jewish state, which is completely equal for all of its citizens."

Other ministers at the conference were Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar (Likud), Education Minister Shay Piron (Yesh Atid) and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver (Yisrael Beiteinu).

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[Israeli]

1. 'Zero Tolerance' ...

for Israeli Arabs ... and Leftists

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Bennett insisted he was working “obsessively” to integrate Arabs into the Israeli economy as individuals, but that they must be forbidden any sense of identity beyond that, and that the only “national identity” Israel could ever allow was Jewishness.

Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar went on to condemn both Arabs and “leftists,” saying they had promoted school books that forwarded the idea of Israel as a state for all its citizens, and that he spent his time in the Education Ministry trying to ban such books from the classrooms.

Bennett went on to insist that Palestinian statehood would mean that if the Israeli Arabs carved out an identity they’d get “one and a half states” and that the Jews would only have half of one. Bennett did not mention his vehement opposition to Palestinian statehood in the comment.

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/02/23/israels-bennett-zero-tolerance-for-israeli-arabs-national-identity/

[Jefferson23]

2. He is a wacko fanatic racist. n/t

[azurnoir]

3. They 'aspire' to be Israeli except 'they' already are

Bennett's pronouncements make it quite clear why a state that identifies itself by only one of it's religious/ethnic groups is a regressive idea

[sabbat hunter]

4. I say

fuck you to Naftali Bennett.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. "are entirely in line with Israel's values. "

I didn't know that stealing other people's lands, destroying their way of life and even killing then was an Israeli value.


The Palestinians really have become the victims. What does that make the Israelis?