RT Yuval Ben-Ami: A couple of Jewish-American tourists found themselves in the midst of a sizeable demonstration against the Nation State law, outside the Prime Minister’s residence. They ask me what it was about, and I tell them. They immediately turn to leave, but I give it a try anyway: “Listen, just now a former education minister spoke here, he said that there is no point talking to Netanyahu and that we need to turn to other players. And the first such player he mentioned is the US Jewry. So let talk. So we talk, for about five minutes. In those five minutes this pair finds it so imperative to back up Bibi and the Right that they give up democracy in both Israel and the United States (because I ask them if they would be willing to live in a non-democratic country) and justify South African Apartheid (Is it better there now?.) They then go on to defend the institution of slavery and oppression of blacks in America as it was when it was enshrined in law. Yeah, they went there. They would probably never talk like that back in Texas. But here, in Sheldon Adelsons toy country, anything goes. As they leave, the man shakes my hand. “I love you as a Jew”, he says, “but democracys gonna kill ya.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:34:33 +0000
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