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The same paper ran an article on these guys a while back, noting how they justify transfer according to Jewish law, wear T-Shirts saying "I Buy From Jews Only" (I have a picture of that shirt from a friend in Israel) and hate Sharon for being moderate.¹

So I would take whatever these maniacs say with a grain of salt - their idea of "supporting terrorism" is likely to include being an Arab, and they have no problem with Jewish terrorism.

By the way, when I say "maniacs", that doesn't mean to suggest that they are particularly extreme within the core of Likud. For example, when Uzi Cohen presented his "map of transfer" on stage at the last Likud conference, there were "favourable reactions", according to the press.²

Some commentators were so disgusted at this they even said that contrary to the past (when some in Likud refused to join the Shamir government because of the presence of Moledet - "Homeland"), quote:

"Today transfer is a banner to be carried with pride in Likud" ³

I think that is roughly accurate - ethnic cleansing is viewed with pride by significant segments of the people now running Israel, and I think we ignore those trends at our peril.


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1. Shalom Yerushalmi, 'Alternative Likud', Ma'ariv, 28 Nov 2003.
2. Ma'ariv, 6 Jan 2004.
3. Nadav Eyal, 'No connection to reality', Ma'ariv, 5 Jan 2004.