Get A Hold of Yourselves
This is bad on so many levels:
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... [was met by] a group of disengagement-plan opponents verbally assaulted him. The attackers, who are not residents of the ultra-Orthodox community, approached the minister... and shouted slogans against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. The assailants... tried to assault him.
I can't understand why these people keep losing public support. The disengagement-plan opponents have several good points, not the least of which involve the problems inherent in evicting Jews from their homes. But let's not mince words: to try to physically assault a sitting minister makes them no better than any of the other enemies of the state who, given the chance, would do the same. Political violence is a bright line - one crosses it only at the risk of full public delegitimization.
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... [was met by] a group of disengagement-plan opponents verbally assaulted him. The attackers, who are not residents of the ultra-Orthodox community, approached the minister... and shouted slogans against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. The assailants... tried to assault him.
I can't understand why these people keep losing public support. The disengagement-plan opponents have several good points, not the least of which involve the problems inherent in evicting Jews from their homes. But let's not mince words: to try to physically assault a sitting minister makes them no better than any of the other enemies of the state who, given the chance, would do the same. Political violence is a bright line - one crosses it only at the risk of full public delegitimization.
