Israeli Diplomacy
‘Dumbest thing to say’ of the week award….Nati Tamir, who seems to think that annoying yellow thing between Israel and Australia binds the two cultures together.
Israeli envoy ordered home to explain racist remarks
CANBERRA - Israel's Canberra-based Ambassador to New Zealand has been ordered home to explain racist remarks about Australia's closest and most sensitive neighbours.
Nati Tamir, who eased Israel's fraught relations with New Zealand after flying to Wellington in the wake of the Mossad passport affair, reportedly made the remarks to an Israeli newspaper during a visit to Tel Aviv.
Mr Tamir is accredited to Wellington but is also Israel's ambassador to Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
Mr Tamir told the newspaper Ha'aretz last week that Australia and Israel - which shared a relationship as close as Israel's with the United States - were like sisters in Asia.
"We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians," he was reported as saying. "We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes.
"Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not. We are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side."
posted by Bomber @ 11:41 am
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On 21 June 2004, the Israeli press published the results of an opinion poll that confirms Israel’s victorious march to apartheid. The survey, conducted in May by the National Security Studies Centre at the University of Haifa, polled 1,016 respondents from all sectors of the population, including Arabs, Jews, settlers, religious conservatives and new immigrants. It revealed that a majority of the Jewish public in Israel – approximately 64 per cent – believes that their government should encourage Israeli Arabs to emigrate from Israel
45.3 per cent said that they supported revoking Israeli Arabs’ right to vote and hold political office. Nearly 80 per cent of the Jewish respondents supported the policy of “focused killings” (read: assassination) in Arab territories and about one-quarter said that they would consider voting for an ultra-nationalist party like Kach if such a party were to field itself in the next elections. Kach, we recall, is that party founded by the fascist Rabbi Meir Kahane (“I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state”), who called for the forced expulsion of Arabs from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The party was outlawed in 1994, not, in our opinion, because of its flagrant racism but because of the threat it posed to the rightwing party system.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/bishara.html
Israeli propaganda machine goes in to top gear.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19500
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