Thursday, June 30, 2011

Israelis must not speak the truth?

We read:
"The Israeli prime minister's 19-year-old son posted disparaging and obscene comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, an Israeli paper reported today.

Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu posted that Muslims 'celebrate hate and death,' the Haaretz daily reported.

After Palestinian assailants entered a West Bank settlement and stabbed five members of an Israeli family to death, he wrote that 'terror has a religion and it is Islam.'

Yair Netanyahu, the eldest of the prime minister's two sons, is currently a soldier in the Israeli military's media liaison unit.

But a lawyer for the Netanyahu family, David Shimron, defended teh soldier, insisting in a statement that the comments were those of a 'teenager' and were 'taken out of context in an attempt to defame the prime minister and his family.'

In another comment, he wrote that there had never been a Palestinian state and that he hoped 'there would never be one.'

Source

I am sure I would feel similarly in his situation

3 comments:

The Duke of Stratford said...

Doesn't sound like he wrote anything that wasn't true.

Anonymous said...

How do you knock the kid for making a few valid points?

Anonymous said...

Any other teenager in Israel could post the same things on Facebook and not be noticed. The comments are two years old speaking of a 17yo's view of the world with little life experience to draw on. The fact that his watchers allowed him to leave those comments on his home page when he joined the army speaks volumes though.

-btm