Nevertheless, as these statements keep repeating themselves year after year, it would seem that certainn politicians simply feed off of the hatred of elements of ideological opposition. And they'll blacken the reputation of their political rivals with no real proof and certainly, without any provable previous results.
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A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday's cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
"The scope of the conflict will be much larger than it is today and than it was during the disengagement," Diskin warned. "Our investigation found a very high willingness among this public to use violence - not just stones, but live weapons - in order to prevent or halt a diplomatic process." While Diskin did not comment explicitly on the danger of another political assassination, the timing of his warning - just days before the anniversary of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination - was not lost on cabinet members
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Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer said Tuesday that the next political assassination was "around the corner."
An unofficial ceremony was held at Jerusalem's Herzl Mount cemetery in Rabin's honor on Tuesday...In his address, Ben-Eliezer said "the writing is on the wall again, and this time in bigger and clearer letters: the next political assassination is around the corder. Somewhere in Israel someone is already holding a loaded weapon, and there is someone giving that person spiritual inspiration and a sense of an ideological mission."
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As usual, the initial media reports of these remarks were not entirely accurate: According to Diskin's office, he never explicitly mentioned the possibility of another political assassination.
He merely said that right-wing violence has "gone up a level," and that further diplomatic concessions could "create a situation in which live weapons would be used to stop the process."
A breath of fairness, balance and reason of Assaf Wohl whois sick and tired of exaggerated attention given to small minority of rightist provocateurs:
Every Jewish burp across the Green Line becomes a major headline on the news channels. Hard-working reporters rush to record it, leftist groups document it on video, and news commentators make sure to analyze its aroma and acidity level.
The politicians, the media’s servants, do not disappoint either. “Radicals want to crack the State’s authority,” said Barak. “We shall not accept rebellious settlers,” screamed the headlines, quoting what seems like a sort of swan song by our prime minister...They are all followed by a whole parade of bandwagon riders fighting for the leftist vote...For a long time now this has not been journalism, but rather, outright propaganda.
The media-covered provocateurs among the settlers are merely a small minority out of 250,000 law-abiding citizens...Citizens are being run over in hit-and-run accidents regularly. Crime families do whatever they want. And those who enjoy talking about unauthorized buildings would do well to visit Bedouin areas in the south and north once in a while...Anarchists and “peace activists” attack our soldiers every week. Not too long ago, a soldier lost his eye in the Palestinian village of Bil’in; just imagine this would have happened in the settlement of Yitzhar. As it turns out, the writers and speech-makers are not guided by the desire to see enforcement.
What surprises me is the lack of judgment shown by the reporters. Not because I’m naïve enough to think they still possess some kind of decency, but rather, because such hysterical coverage often works against them. It prompts a deep sense of antagonism within the public, which also manifests itself quite clearly in the responses to such news items. So why do they do it? It appears that there is no escaping the conclusion that the hatred often makes them lose their professional decency...
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