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26 october 2012, The Israeli Communist Party http://www.maki.org.il (Israel) (Israel)
Neo-liberal and right-wing Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and fascist Foreign Minister Ivette (Avigdor) Liberman
have agreed to join forces for a general election in the new year. Netanyahu
and Liberman said Thursday they will present a joint list for the January 22
election without merging their respective parties, Likud and Yisrael Beitenu.
Foreign Minister Liberman calls for expelling, by means of a land swap,
hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens simply for being Arab. He ran an
election campaign highlighted by the slogan, "Only Lieberman understands
Arabic." He was a member of Kach in the late 1970s, which he
understandably denies but which Kach veterans from that era swear to. He’s
fantasized aloud in the Knesset about executing Arab MKs and threatened to
bomb Egypt’s Aswan Dam. He has been under Israel Police investigation for
corruption for nearly 15 years, and could face indictment pretty soon.
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(Hadash and
Communist Party of Israel demonstrators in Tel-Aviv, June 2012: "For Peace
and Social Justice."/Photo: Hadash)
Thursday’s union between the Likud and Yisrael Beytenu
parties has resulted in a tie between the rightist and the centrist-leftist
blocs, a preliminary poll released after the announcement found. The
centrist-left, however, includes Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and
Equality – Communist Party of Israel) and two Arab parties. Hadash leader Dov
Khenin said that a Netanyahu-Liberman government, would open three war fronts:
"One on Iran, a second against the Arab-Palestinians in Israel and another
on democracy." Therefore, Khenin continued, "the coming elections are
about fighting for equality, social justice and against the occupation and for
a just peace with the Palestinian people."
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