Tel Aviv – “Netanyahu is the head of the ghetto; Netanyahu is selling Joseph,” Bar-Ilan University Professor Hillel Weiss said Sunday night in a scathing attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his plan to renew the West Bank settlement construction freeze.
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In an interview to Ynet held on the sidelines of an emergency meeting called by settler leaders, Weiss said, “I can say to Netanyahu quietly – you have forgotten what it means to be Jewish, and perhaps you were never even Jewish.”
Weiss, who in the past wished death upon the Hebron Brigade commander, slammed the prime minister with harsh words. “Netanyahu has basic tendencies and weaknesses… This was expressed in the expulsion of (Likud hardliner Moshe) Feiglin and in his intolerance against any authentic Jew with a beard, a moustache, a skullcap, and glasses.”
According to the right-wing professor, “Israel’s status in the UN as a normal and normative country is a million times more important to Netanyahu than a Jewish state, the state of the Jews.”
He even used images from dark ages. “In the Białystok Ghetto there was someone who said, ‘We’ll just work till the end of the Holocaust, everything will be okay.’ Three months before the end of the Holocaust, the entire ghetto was destroyed. This is exactly what is happening here. Netanyahu is the head of the ghetto.”
Weiss called for the establishment of an independent entity in Judea and Samaria. “The settlement must define itself as a political entity sitting inside the Land of Israel or as an autonomy or as a Jewish state.”
In his vision, he sees an autonomy of Jews in the territory. “We expect the State of Israel to provide the autonomy with all the infrastructure required for the Jewish settlement’s existence.”
According to the professor, the settlers “must establish a parliament, of Jews, in which all residents of Judea and Samaria will be represented, and take practical steps of taxation, settlement plans, living in tents in order to spread across the mountains.
“We won’t pay taxes as much as we can to those setting out to destroy us. We will pay taxes to ourselves and the rest, the services the State of Israel will agree to provide to us, we will give to it too.”
Weiss added that “the Knesset and the government are completely irrelevant. I can’t negotiate with the Israeli government here. But, God willing, we will convince the Israeli government and the State of Israel that they had better not try to dismantle the army and cause a civil war. All the communities, all the outposts, all the cities – they must know that they are sovereign communities at least like in the Diaspora.”
No one really cares what this fringe group of settler thinks or doesn’t think about the future of the West Bank. That decision will be made by the Knesset and PM based on whats best for all of Klal Yisroel and not for a small group of fanatics who would jeopardize the security needs of all of eretz yisreol. They only lose whatever little credibility they have with these stupid comments about Netanyahyu.. Let them live in their own fantasy world while their destiny is decided for them. They have chosen to become irrelevant and should be treated as such.
No one is talking about a deal that would involve hundreds of thousands of west bank settlers….however there is 100 percent certainty that some settlements will have to be given back like Gush Katif as part of a peace agreements. You can wave your hands and scream gevalt but that will be the case and everyone but a small fringe group knows and accepts it.
I wish I could say the professor is wrong but he’s right on target. Netanyahu is just interested in staying in office and impressing upon the world what a “good Jew” he is.
i say i see this site is soo biased co-opted by the government of netanyahu with money
first of all the whole eretz yisroel is in a uproar trying to save israel from cutting its side off to the auschvitz borders
and this site posts nothing
during the general election this site pushed netanyahu
and now the first article i see is this one it proves this site has tremendous bias or money involved towards protecting the terrible policies of people that go against their own electorate baldfaced
I am certain that we can deal with any threat from the Arabs. I’m not so sure about threats from within. The worst slanders against the Jewish state today come not from our enemies but from Jews.
amen proffesor amen.no rain since arik turned on his people 5 years ago and still the draught continues.bebne don’t need rain.he has running water in the sink.
He wants to be the Ben Gurion for the settlers…
Just wondering if they will still say halel on 5 of iyar or only on the new independence day!?
This fine professor whom I respect but don’t know does not focus and on the existing groups and past groups. Prof. Klausner wanted a binational state, thos who refuse to serve in the IDF their motto tov lamuth achar leat arzeinu but they shun the IDF . Who serves yes some chareidim , Russians of questionable heritage and others who love E.Y. and then you have those who made a tefillah for Yassar Arafat. Yassar Arafat a relative to the Mufti yemachshmo Husseini. Make a cheshbon and the results are dismal.
latest news.shas has or will help bebe put thru the freeze.oh they themselves wont freeze.they have plenty of money now for heating this winter.