Ha’aretz has a piece about Yaakov Sharett, son of Israel’s first foreign minister and second prime minister Moshe Sharett, who has become an anti-Zionist and – to put it bluntly – a real douchebag (let’s face it, they usually go hand-in-hand).
Don’t believe me? Here’s some excerpts:
He even supports the Iranian nuclear program.
“The State of Israel and the Zionist enterprise were born in sin. That’s the way it is,”
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Only after it turned out that those who were supposed to come no longer exist, other Jews came. I don’t discount them. From a Jewish perspective they are as Jewish as me and you, but their background is different. They were raised in Muslim countries and came from a background of religions, clans and admiration of the father. People like that then came into Israel, and that changed the situation and to this day is causing problems and upheavals.”
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The more homogenous society is, the healthier it is.
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When I see the prime minister with a kipah on his head, I don’t feel good. This is not the Israel I want to see.
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He opposes encouraging people to move to Israel. “Israel is the only country that works to increase its population. Whoever heard of such a thing. That emissaries persuade people to come and live in Israel? There aren’t enough people and traffic jams here?”
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I’m not afraid of death itself, but I am afraid of form death will take,” he says in conclusion, and reveals that he has made the decision to take his own life
And here’s the clincher – as he whines about how bad Israel is, he does so from his Tel Aviv penthouse:
Poor thing!
Hence the title of this post.
