Posted on 12/22/2013 7:42:49 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Former minister Yossi Beilin said Saturday that former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was a man with a short temper and a long streak of nastiness when it came to dealing with residents of towns in Judea and Samaria.
“It wasn't worthy behavior for a Prime Minister,” said Beilin, a former Labor politician who was identified with the radical-left elements of the party. Beilin, one of the proponents of the Geneva Initiative, which advocated a total Israeli withdrawal from all lands liberated in 1967, said that Rabin “would fight with the settlers for fighting's sake. When you want to remove thousands of people from their homes you have to do it in a sympathetic manner.” Rabin, Beiln said in an interview on a Tel Aviv radio station Saturday night, was too coarse a personality for sympathy.
Beilin said that he had been insulted numerous times by Rabin, but that he held his peace. “I admired what he was trying to do diplomatically,” Beilin said. “I was with the author Amos Oz when he was killed, I remember crying like a baby when we heard the news. I do not remember crying like that for any member of my family. In essence, though, I was crying for a man I really didn't like.”
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...was a man with a short temper and a long streak of nastiness when it came to dealing with residents of towns in Judea and Samaria. "It wasn't worthy behavior for a Prime Minister," said Beilin, a former Labor politician who was identified with the radical-left elements of the party. Beilin, one of the proponents of the Geneva Initiative, which advocated a total Israeli withdrawal from all lands liberated in 1967...Thanks Eleutheria5.
There was an FR thread several days ago based on an Israel article stating that leftist Jews generally hate their observant brothers .
Fact of life. But we will inherit the earth, because we make more babies.
Go to youtube & look up “Latma TV”. It’s Tea Party conservatism, Israel style.
To the Left in Israel, Orthodox Jews and West Bank settlers are like Duck Dynasty & the Robertsons to libs here. They hate those two groups with a passion.
Video of Jewish settlers being forcibly removed & their homes demolished by the IDF is truly heartbreaking.
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