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Israel/ Palestine

Messianic Israeli Minister obsessed with Palestinian Land accuses Kerry of Messianic Obsession

contributors 01/15/2014

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(By AFP)

US slams Israeli defense minister attack on Kerry (via AFP)

A senior US official on Tuesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly disavow a complaint by Israel’s defense minister that John Kerry has a messianic “obsession” with Middle East peace. The official made the highly unusual demand…

 

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Juan Cole adds this material:

Famous obsessive messianic Yaalon quotes:

“The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds of solutions to cancer. Some say it’s necessary to amputate organs but at the moment I am applying chemotherapy” (August 2002).

“We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately. There is no way to stabilize the Middle East today without defeating the Iranian regime. The Iranian nuclear program must be stopped . . . We have to consider killing Ahmadinejad. All options must be considered” (January 2008).

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