More lies from the duck pond...

I will return to Helle Kleins lead article one more time. It constitutes a great example for when someone makes a non-supported request coming from a loony sound like something the whole nation supports. Helle Klein mentions Avigdor Lieberman, the new foreign minister in Israel, who is the leader of the nationalist party Yisrael Beiteinu. She is then telling the reader that he is demanding all citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish, Zionist and democratic state", a suggestion which could have grave and existential consequences for Israeli Arabs.

So far so good. Avigdor Lieberman and his party did make progress in this last election. This is among other things a reaction to the last operation in Gaza and an overall call for security. However, it is a minority of the people here who think only with their flee-or-fight brain. Avigdor Lieberman is already tripping on his own stupidity over and over and will not last for long, and the role as foreign minister has unofficially been taken care of by the president Shimon Peres.

Helle Klein writes her article as if this idea of a new law has a great chance to be accepted and implemented, but that is very far from the truth. Truth is that today the ministerial legislative committee rejected this loyalty oath bill with great majority. Only Yisrael Beiteinu voted for.

Helle Klein also writes that there is a new law to be implemented that bans commemorations of the "Naqba" by Israeli Arabs and this is a pure lie. What was decided was that organisations that want to organise this kind of event, will not get governmental funding for it. The commemoration is not banned in itself and they will keep on getting funding for all other activities. It can of course be discussed if it is the right way to go, but let us at least keep to the truth...