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Labor leader: the Left forgot what it means to be Jewish
[Jpost] Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay continued his trend of making controversial statements Monday, when he told party activists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba that "the Left forgot what it means to be Jewish."Gabbay recalled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whispered that statement in the ear of the late Sephardi kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kadourie and was caught on camera. That October 1997 incident caused a major political uproar. "Do you know what the Left did in response to [what Netanyahu said]?,'' Gabbay asked a questioner at the event. "It forgot what it means to be Jewish. They said 'they say it about us but now we are just liberals' but it is not true. We are Jews, and we must speak about our Jewish values." Labor used to be Israel's biggest party - and then they became EUropean style social democrats. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-14 |
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