Institutional Evil - Or why WE don't have a partner for peace in Israel

I’ve wanted to post/shout/cry about that for a while now.

THIS PIG has been appointed vice prime minister of the state of Israel.

Okay, deep breath.

The gentleman here depicted is Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Israel Our Home (Yisrael Beitenu) party. The party’s base is the Soviet Jews who went to Israel after 1991. Himself was born in Moldova.
This pig - sorry, person - has joined the Kadima-Labour-Shas-Gil coalition and hence reinforces the coalition’s presence in the Knesset to 78 seats (out of 120).

But hey, it’s all cool. I mean, the guy only calls for bombing Iran and Egypt (!!!!!!), expelling Arabs from Israel proper - and Israel improper as well, as he aims to annex as much as he can from the Autonomous territories. He is a notorious racist, an arrivist, and basically everything that is supposed to separate humans from rats, well, he displays the rat characteristic.

The interesting thing is that this governing coalition which welcomed our good friend Lieberman (‘Lovable man’, as he was ironically dubbed by Uri Avnery) on board was brought to power on grounds of finding some kind of... hehehehehe... peace.

Remember Ariel Sharon, the war criminal who killed the Egyptian prisoners in 1973? The man who orchestrated the Sabra and Chatila massacres in 1982 in Lebanon? The man who ignited the Second Intifada, who was Prime Minister from 03/2001 to 04/2006? Yep, that one. Well, his Kadima party was brought to power, and this worm Ehud Olmert became prime minister, on a ‘peace’ agenda. Well, end-of-the-conflict-disengagement type of thing.

I can't stop laughing.

We thought that could never happen . We thought that extremist parties no longer had their place in the civilised world. No Jörg Haider in Austria, no Jean-Marie le Pen in France.
Well, I was clearly wrong on my definition of the civilised world.

And for that matter, it is also funny to know that the Labour party, led by current defense minister Amir Peretz, has grinned a little bit but decided to bend over. After all, Peretz, who had promised before the elections to never join a coalition with Lieberman, knew that someone with his limited intellect and education - barely made it through high school - would never get such a sweet chance.
Ha’aretz, for that matter, said that "Amir Peretz has let his voters down in every possible way".

Why don't we take a quick look at the other members of the governing coalition, while we’re at it?

Another coalition member, Shas, is an extremist religious party, led by rabbi Ovedia Yosef - a lovely lovely old man who has said that “In the old city of Jerusalem they [Arabs] are swarming like ants. They should go to hell - and the Messiah will speed them on their way”. (Source: Newsmax); ; and on many other occasions, he also said about Arabs that "It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable", and "The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world."(BBC NEWS: “Rabbi calls for the Annihilation of Arabs).
Charming, isn't he?

Gil is the pensioners’ party. La lohom wala 3aleihom, as we say. They made it into the Knesset by encouraging people to vote for them rather than put a white ballot. Cute, no? The average age of their electorate should be something like 85 years old.

So basically, whatever hope we thought we had is totally gone. Not that there was much left after this summer’s Lebanon massacre anyway.

Oh, and the cool thing: Lieberman, the man who advocates the expulsion of the country's original citizens, the new vice-PM, was given a ministerial portfolio responsible for strategic threats against Israel, notably the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme.

Hehehehehe.

Israelis may be bloodthirsty, hateful, lawless, trigger-happy and irrational (no, not all of them. Just some. Stop whining.), they do have a sense of humour.