Aide: Netanyahu told German FM West Bank can’t be ‘Judenrein’
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the Nazi term ‘Judenrein’ in a recent meeting with the German foreign minister to condemn the Palestinian demand that West Bank settlements be removed, a confidant of the premier has said.
‘Judea and Samaria cannot be Judenrein,’ the confidant quoted the prime minister as telling Frank-Walter Steinmeier earlier this week.
Asked how Germany’s top diplomat responded to hearing the term used by the Nazis to refer to areas ‘cleansed of Jews’, the confidant said, ‘What could he do? He basically just nodded.’
According to the confidant, Netanyahu had encouraged cabinet colleagues to deploy the term in their defense of the settlements and of Israel’s insistence that Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state.” (Read more from freerepublic.com.)
This originally appeared on haaretz.com, though they’ve since sterilized the article’s title.
Invoking Nazi language is disgusting. Israel’s settler movement and their apologists steal land from Palestinians and anyone who suggests they give it back is called a Nazi.
See Representative Press‘s video about slandering Israel’s critics:
I think open criticism and honest debate would make Israel stronger. It is the squelching and slandering of Israel’s critics that causes true anti-semitism to fester.