Yossi Sarid / Lieberman will be remembered as a disgrace to Israel
Our FM is a violent and aggressive man who knows only too well that offense is the best defense.
By Yossi Sarid Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu Yisrael Beitenu Israel news Avigdor LiebermanThis time, the burden of proof is not on the police or the prosecution; it is Avigdor Lieberman who must prove to the public that the cloud of suspicion that envelops him from head to toe is false. The police have already recommended indicting him on serious charges - from taking bribes to money laundering, from fraud to witness tampering. Were there such a thing as a court of public opinion in this country, there would be no need for a real court.
And if he cannot prove the allegations false, at least he might take the trouble to explain. For instance: How did it happen that his daughter - however gifted she might be - has amassed millions of shekels as a consultant, even though at 21, she is not yet known as an expert in any field? It's a riddle. Will it remain a riddle?
Lieberman accuses the law-enforcement agencies of justice delayed, of an investigation that goes on and on without end. But it never will end as long as he keeps obstructing it. And on Tuesday, what appears to be the mother of all obstructions came to light.
Who knows better than Lieberman, a violent and aggressive man, that offense is the best defense? For years, he has been assailing his investigators - making them objects of suspicion and contempt and systematically harassing them. And he has already forced some of the best investigators to leave prematurely, against their will. While he is still deputy prime minister and foreign minister, they are already gone.
He has been in Israel for 32 years and in politics for almost 20, but he still pretends to represent new immigrants, to thwart governmental edicts that would hurt them. During his campaign, he promised his voters the moon and the stars. But all he has given them is dirt. He rants and raves over his personal concerns, but has yet to utter a peep over the humiliating conversion process and draconian marriage laws that he promised to change. He has repeatedly violated the civil union he forged with his voters, while hundreds of thousands of immigrants - those he is supposed to represent - continue to be miserable.
If you cannot remember all the different posts he has held, it's not your fault. He has been director general of the Prime Minister's Office, national infrastructure minister, transportation minister and strategic affairs minister - but not really. Nobody remembers these jobs because there is nothing to remember. There is no achievement that can be attributed to him. He has done nothing for the country. But for his own family, he has done wonders.
What is he remembered for? For his repeated verbal attacks on judges, policemen and prosecutors, aimed at intimidating them. He has done even more to undermine the foundations of the law and its institutions than attorney Uri Corb - and the justice minister, to whom Lieberman is both patron and ally, should take note.
He is also remembered for the strife and hatred he has fomented among all of Israel's different population groups: between immigrants and natives, between left and right, between religious and secular, and especially between Jews and Arabs - whose elected representatives he has proposed executing the way Nazi leaders were executed after the Nuremberg trials. There isn't a type of schism he hasn't tried to create or incitement he hasn't tried to foment.
Nor has he kept his hatred solely for his rivals at home; he has also lavished it on rivals and enemies abroad. There is not a Muslim leader in the region whom he has not humiliated at some point. He has also hurled insults as far away as Scandinavia, and many points in between. There is not a politician in the world who actually wants to meet with him; the only ones who do so are those compelled by protocol. Only with Belarus has he tightened our relations - the last dictatorship in Europe, headed by the madman Alexander Lukashenko. And this is the man whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose to carry Israel's message to the world. This is how we are "explaining" Israel.
Israelis also remember that he brought many MKs into the Knesset who had neither higher education nor fame nor a word to say for themselves - for only Lieberman's word matters. Were they not toadies, they would never have earned his favor.
And perhaps people recall his conviction for assaulting and threatening a child. He was fined, and the court stated: "The defendant's acts were not minor in nature. This was not a single, isolated act stemming from a spontaneous reaction, but a series of acts committed over time."
Lieberman will be remembered as a disgrace due to the evil spirit he has introduced into Israel, our home, ever since his star rose. Even his party's name was stolen, and he has taken it vain.
Yet the country's leaders remain silent. It is very puzzling. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, who had no problem assailing Ehud Olmert, have not a word to say against Lieberman. Yet Olmert is suspected of taking tens of thousands of shekels, and Lieberman of millions. Olmert is suspected of taking envelopes full of cash, and Lieberman of whole cartons.
All of a sudden, when it was convenient for them, the premier and defense ministers discovered the presumption of innocence. Or perhaps they discovered that one crime leads to - and exposes - another. And why should they tempt fate?
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Yossi Sarid is bitter. He has always been bitter but perhaps he is now a little bit more bitter. Shulamit Aloni knows about his bitterness. Ehud Olmert knows. So many other former friends know. Perhaps the only one who did not know was Yassar Arafat who Sarid welcomed with open arms even as Arafat was giving the orders to murder more Israelis.
Yossi Sarid is bitter. He has always been bitter but perhaps he is now a little bit more bitter. Shulamit Aloni knows about his bitterness. Ehud Olmert knows. So many other former friends know. Perhaps the only one who did not know was Yassar Arafat who Sarid welcomed with open arms even as Arafat was giving the orders to murder more Israelis.
that Lieberman is what Israel is all about, isn't it? But he is you, Israelis. He is you because you all him. There is no daylight between the rest of the Israeli society and Lieberman, Bibi, Barak...These people and the rest represent Israeli society. Again, they are you, Israelis, and you are them!
Sarid accuses Lieberman of bringing in members of Knesset without higher education. He knows very well that the #2 MK in Yisrael Beiteinu is Dr. Uzi Landau who received his PhD at MIT and taught civil engineering and transportation studies at the Technion before embarking on a career in politics.
Yo, you vile little man. If you want to start eradicating Jews who are traitors to their people perhaps you should start with thinking about self-euthanasia, Just what has someone like you done for the Jewish people? Yossi is a controversial figure, that's a fact. But when you get to the point where you can lick his boots in dedication to the State of Israel and all it's inhabitants, then you might have some right to open your mouth....and when you finally do so, make sure there is some respect in it for your betters!
...though you may not agree with it is responded to by the likes of "A Nice Fellow", "Ralph" and "Mark" by name-calling. Nothing more. No disagreement, no way of showing why the article is wrong - just immatuerish name-calling. Waaaghh!!!!! I guess it is easier to make the "Left" the boogeyman then actually address the issues in said article.
Thank you Jane for accurate analysis and judgements. Every educated palestinian knows ery well what is going in the minds of israeli leader and even every citizen whether immigrant or native!!. We also read the main daily journals , the differnt articles and the commentators from allover the world. In fact the israeli leaders believe only in dictating peace (Surrender) on their arab neighbours. But be sure that the uprising will beginn soon among the new arab generations .
In Europe LaPen, Haider and other racists are routinely chastised by the Israeli government. In Israel their counterparts are elevated into the highest ranks of the government. It is rotten to the core, and reflects the descent of morality and ethics in Israeli society. There are frequent lamentations about the lack of support Israel enjoys among Jews of the diaspora. Perhaps one of the chief reasons is the acceptance of racism in Israel. This jew says enough!
Remember where he comes from: Russia. Government corruption and mafia are normal things in Russia. This is well known. So, it is not surprising at all that this corrupt thugh is showing his true colors in Israel. What a shame! How can Netanyahu allow such disgrace for Israel? Maybe Sarid's conclusion at the end of his article has indeed something to do with it. Israel's fathers must be turning in their graves.
The entire government is a disgrace, a motley crew of cheats, frauds and liars whose policy are based on a racist ideology posing as democratic. They are personal non grata around the world and becoming more so. this moldovan is no different from his cohorts. At least petty dictators make no pretences about their policies. But this one, it would be hard to find a more collective government of liars, deceivers and provocateurs. Ruth Dayan has said it, Livni has iad it, Peres has said it and Sarid has said it. Time to send the moldovan back to his homeland and let him face the criminal fraud charges that await him there.
....in the end, it was not Lieberman, but a certain "Bibi" Netanyahu, who led the campaign of hatred and agitation against then PM Rabin, which ended with his brutal murder. To be honest, I then prefer a guy like Lieber- man, who at least openly admits to what Zionism made in Israel 2010 stands for....
peace in ireland when the protestants vote for union ! since it will never happen neither will the pink elepants of labbos dreams ever materialise in the mid east !
"Lieberman accuses the law-enforcement agencies of justice delayed, of an investigation that goes on and on without end. But it never will end as long as he keeps obstructing it. And on Tuesday, what appears to be the mother of all obstructions came to light."haaretz He and netanyahu use the same metods to keep peace away from their door.
There's a good reason why Lieberman is a member of this government and why Yossi Sarid isn't: the People of Israel have spoken and have decided that there is no room for extreme lefties to lead our countryto oblivion.
My posts have no capital letters or exclamation marks, which Jane's are full of, yet I'm the one who is screaming. It rather seems that whoever disagrees with you is automatically 'screaming'. Take the post by American : "Lieberman is a disgrace to all humanity. A thug and a hoodlum!" I suppose, since you and Jane agree with him, that this is a perfect example of a 'whisper', right?
Israel is a Jewish nation in name only. It has strayed far from historic Jewish values. Zionism is not Judaism. Zionism is nationalism with all the defects that come with a priority placed on nationalism over faith or human values.
Avigdor Lieberman is our salvation. That is why Sarid disapproves of him. No Lieberman,then no one to tries to show the world the truth by visiting none stop tirelessly to put forward the Israeli perspective.And what does Sarid do?he castigated a man for doing his job earning his living only which can be interpretated as JEALOUSY. Lieberman cares deeply for our country,whereas Sarid wants to follow the likes of Levy,Hass et al who do nothing for Israel but only spread maliciousness .
..If either one offer a vision or direction for their country, I missed it. He's not very skilled in diplomatic ways; and he doesn't interact even with his counterparts in other friendly countries. His loyality oath stuff..is too much to asked from israeli citizens..loyality oaths are not a trait of a MODERN State. Israel grow up & get modern.
Sarid is just the other side of the same coin. I've no love for Lieberman,but atleast he dosen't "sell"his home land to the enemy,as Sarid was willing to do,first to the soviet,and since to the Arabs.Sarids friends were all thugs dictators like Fidel,Mao,Brezhnev,and Arafat. They are both thugs.
Liberman is guilty for calling a spade a spade. Liberman is guilty for telling it like it is. Liberman is guilty for telling the enemies of Israel that they will be destroyed before they have a chance to destroy Israel. No one else has the nerve to tell the truth. These endless negotiations will one day cease and when the smoke clears from the bombs, the winner of this ageless conflict will be made known. Thanks to people like Liberman, the winner WILL be Israel.
Yossi Sarid has consistently shown that he acts like a chicken without a head. His one act of solidarity/connection with the people, his move to Kiryat Shmona was an attempt at showing another side. The residents confirmed that they did not see much of him. Yossi Sarid's sole purpose in life is to attack the establishment. Anything that tries to build long term Jewish interests are regarded by him as being part of the establishment. He is currently blind to the secular money wasting, tax to the bone the better off socialistic regime Israel has become. Somehow he does not see this as being the establishment? Only if there is a Jewish connection does this get his blood boiling. He is willing to destroy what Jews have build during the past 100 years. This is who and what he is ... disconnected.
You have just described Edgar Hoover,Joseph Mccarthy,and some half a dozen American presidents.They are all were real disgrace for the US and humanity.
Yossi Sarid (remnant)is right.Lieberman will not be remembered in a positive way.The problem is that Yossi is a remnant of the old Soviet legacy,and he will not be remembered at all,atleast not outside of the Arab world,where he will be remembered as a hero. Wake up Yossi,Stalin(your hero)is dead,and the Berlin wall which you loved is gone.
Don't worry Jane, many agree with you. Let Nemesis scream as loud as he wants. The Chinese say "Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts".
think of is to attack the person criticising you? Will someone post one comment REFUTING the claims that the writer lodges against this guy, Lieberman. BTW, it is 100% true that the world is watching and it continues to modify and formulate its opinion about the state that is "THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST" You can call other people alll the names you want but that will not stop them, you should know this.
Lieberman is a real patriot along few others, Rabin wanted to give all Samaria and Judea, Olmert, Jerusalem, the minor disgrace, that proof that concessions is the wrong way, was made by Sharon.
Not the two faced Shimon Peres,Livni or even Sharon who made platitudes about peace but waged war with the best of them. With Lieberman at the helm the world better understands that Israel has lurched further to the right and threatens to go further still. After all Israel without a comprehensive settlement with the Palestinians is destined to become an apartheid state [Ehud Barak has said it himself], so how can such a state in the making appoint a moderate F.M. who stands for peace and progress! It makes far more sense and is at least intellectually honest that Israel appoint both a bigot and a thug, after all bigotry and thuggery will be required in spades in the new Israel to come.
these days? Tel-Aviv lefties like you will soon be a protected species, with guards outside the bars where you sip your lattes to protect you not from terrorists (if the likes of Yossi are kept out of the Knesset there soon won't be any more terrorists) but from ordinary Israelis...
any more is kick Jews around as you would like. Jews have their own army now, and they have people like Lieberman, who won't take shit from European anti-Semites. So judge all you like, Jane, your judgements are as important to us as last year's snow.
"Jane", brush your English please. Your opinion on sudanese christians really tells us a lot about your competence.
Not too sure WHY he would do that: after all, Lieberman is still destined to be Israeli Prime Minister one day. Maybe not the next election, but possibly the election after that. Incompetence? Yeah, so? Dishonesty? Sharon set the benchmark for THAT. Corruption? Don't make me laugh. You only have to look at the relentless right-wing tilt of the Israeli voting popln, and then look at Lieberman, and conclude that the two of them were made for each other. He's a made man, Yossi, and nothing is going to stop him becoming PM; certainly not the Israeli legal (hah!) system.
Just can't please you can I. I plkedge my full support for Avigdor (the nightclub bouncer) Lieberman declaring he can't get a fair trial in Israel and that he is doing an excellent job which he should be allowed to complete. and you still complain. There really is no pleasing some people. But you are right people like Cipora and yourself haS converted me into realising that Lieberman is Israel's best hope for a lasting peace.
and who are against the racisism and those who do not want to see Israel are seen as a disgrace to Israel??? Many seem to think so when defending Lieberman in their opinions. So -this is the reason why Israel is not very liked in the world and the reason for all the critics from all over the world? I wonder...
Jewish nation are waiting for Israel the Biggest, all the Arab countries. May be you do not know about it, but I know.. If you want to do this, you have to first clean yourself. Look around you who is rotten take him away and throw him to the sea. Fish will love it. After this you are going to think about Israel the Biggest..And it will happend if you start cleaning around you like Lieberman and other who is smelly and make a damages for Jewish nation. Use your brain not your stomach. http://message.podbean.com
Who is hatefilled, show you, Mrs. Cipora, very good. Because you deliberately garbling name of my country. Yes, I hate nazis and neonazis of !!!ALL!!! religions and creeds. I hope, you understand, Mrs. Cipora. I VERY GOOD know, what is nazism; my family was hit of it very strongly.
... altho' did hope very much for her political success... ... if she'd have had only personal ambition in mind, she'd have leapt onto Bibi's offer for foreign min... Shabbat shalom. E
Avigdor Lieberman is the leader. http://www.beytenu.org/119/0/article.html And according to mr.Sarid there are few wonderful english proverbs-"A hungry man is an angry man" and another one is "Empty vessels make the most noise".
Yes, I judge, because I have MY experiences a MY opinion. Opinion got from jewish news, jewish discussions and opinions, jewish deeds. So, I CAN, I MAY judge. Sudanese christians or Iranians are occupying other country, confiscating land there, murdering people and getting other crimes? Ooooh, WHERE? Yes, I know. I know more, dear Oren - for example, that Liebermann (nice GERMAN name :o))) is primitive Russian rightist, de facto neonazi, former bar-bouncer and current criminal. And that Sarid is left-liberal professional intellectual a politician. Of course, I know WHO these people are, because I can read their words in papers. So, I can judge - because you are NOT taboo...
At what point of international isolation and pariahdom will it sink into the Greater Israel mob that they may be wrong. Lieberman is a thug. There are many thugs in government all over the world but none are in as crucial position as Lieberman. If Israel is to survive then it has to clean up its politics and get the gangsters off the gravy train, especially Lieberman.
Be sure that a lot - and I mean realy a lot - of people are reading your comments. And I can tell you that your propaganda ministry has a hell of a job to do to counterweight the comments we are reading here and also in other israeli news. Go on to show the rest of the world how you realy are
predict the imminent arrest of the whole Israeli government. He'll do so, of course, once he gets over the rabies attack lefties and Jew-haters suffer when they hear the word 'Lieberman'..
you can thank your princess tzipi who, by the way, has lost all respect i had had for her. she had no business abandoning her duties to the state. the difference between an average politician and a statesman is that the latter puts duty to the public good before personal ambition. shabbat shalom, cipora
Lieberman is a horrible man & it is an embarrassment to Israel & Jews the world over that he is even in politics never mind deputy PM.
and that all appeasement is ended and the country recognises it is sovereign and not a vassal state to the usa the eu or any others seeking to destroy it !!
you are a very hateful, hatefilled person. furthermore, you have no idea of the meaning of the term "neonazi."
he has the gall to speak!
And Yossi will be remembered as "Yossi Vintilator", as casually mentioned by Menachem Begin.
...people outside Israel to be able to read the most of the comments to this article. Why - because these comments are the real disgrace to Israeli people and to people who still have some moral values in Israel.
You Are trying to be the judge over Israelis, Jews, leftists, rightist and and and??? You say that many countries are watching Israelis. Don't you have anything else to do? Have you being watching over christian Sudanese too? or Iranian fascists? What a pitiful soul you are. Don't forget that one day you will be judged too. Not by mankind but someone else. By the way what do you know about Sarit beside that he is a leftist or about Lieberman beside that he is a rightist? You don't know who these people are,right? You should stop judging other people. Stop thinking with your heart if you have any.
Cannot possibly get a fair trial in Israel, with all the leaks and innuendoes swirling around him, and with people circling him like sharks jealous of his daughter's success. Which has brought wealth beyond many 21 year old's dreams. Avigdor (the nightclub bouncer) Lieberman is a fine advertisment for the honour and integrity of a modern Israel, and he is the finest ambbassador I can remember in my lifetime for the ideals and the future of the light unto nations. He must be allowed to finish what he has started in the Foreign Ministry. Israel's future depends on it.
... what you so lucidly express as negative, the current regime and its noch-shleppers value as positive...
How would you feel if your 12 year old son had been in a group that was picking on another kid, and that kid's father hunted your son down in a fit of rage, beat him with his fists, and slammed him against a wall so hard that he ended up in the hospital with a concussion? That's your frigging Lieberman! And that's not to mention all the fraud, money laundering, etc, etc, et cetera, that he's being investigated for now.
Then how does it come such a man represents your country and his party participate in its government. Israël media are always very quick to harshly criticize and slam foreign politicians.
Israel's fight for survival, like it or not is also waged on the international front. Unfortunately she now has an FM who is shunned by the nearly all nations. However, it is strange that Russia, who supports Syria gives Lieberman a warm welcome. Is it because Lieberman and Putin find common cause or that by feeding Lieberman's ego and political ambitions they know that they are further undermining Israel's international standing.
Dear Yossi, The next government of Israël without Netanyaou and Lieberman will be most welcomed in all the world immediately ! The world public opinion could change very quickly if the israeli politic could change ! Thank you for your courageous and well written article ! All the best !
Israel should review its political system - currently it encouranges criminals to gain power and keep it, even regardless of being exposed.
Sarid and left hate Lieberman because he tells it as it is and does not live in a rosy dreamworld. Ten years of investigations in an attempted character assasination by the left leaning courts and media have not produced an indictment- proof that the evidence is insufficient. Keep it up Sarid and Meretz will disappear from the Knesset in the next elections.
Shas and israel Beitenu represents the true color of the israeli government ,Extreme right facism ,and xenophobia. Likud and Labor party are guilty at least by association .Kadima by not being able to form a coalition . The clowns are in the news .The puppet masters Barak and Netanyhu are enjoying Machiavelli 's advice . They let the clowns take the blame and they stay in power ,smart for them very sad for the rest of us.
Nobody should be surprised by the viciousness of the ad hominem attacks launched against Sarid's latest piece by Greater Israel lunatics. They fail rationally to examine any of the claims Sarid makes regarding Lieberman's political career. Instead of thoughtful analysis, they give readers a picture of their perturbed psyches.
... who Lieberman really is and why he is a disgrace to our country, We'll never have peace, internally and with our neighbours, with people like Lieberman in politics. In any other country where the word "democracy" has a meaning Lieberman would be gone long time ago. Thanks for an excellent article!
internal strife. It is the nature of the beast.I believe the more disturbing point about the Lieberman case is; his case was dormant for 10 years. Suddenly, as he becaome popular the case became active again. I am surprised you,as an intellectual, omitted this coincidence in your article.It appears to me though you are no longer in the knesset. The knesset is still very much apart of you.
Dear numbers 1. - 4., you should know, that we, a rest of World, are reading your daily news and discussions below articles. And we getting opnions about Israel, Israelis, Zionists, Israeli leftists and rightists. What you, Israeli rightist, are writting, it is in many cases a crime by us - in the Europe. A crime of neonazism, dears, with arrest terms between 2 and 5 years. Therefore you are pariah state, therefore you are unwelcomed, detested and sensed as hateful deceitful agressive paranoids...
Leiberman represents the true face of Israel. Slick politicians like Olmert and Livni are usually able to keep the lipstick on the pig. But every time Lieberman opens his mouth, the world learns the truth about Israel. And as the world wakes up slowly to the reality of Apartheid, they'll begin to demand changes. Ironically, he's the best thing that could happen for the cause of justice and peace. If Israel survives him, that is.
An intellectual whose intellect is subsumed by the left's knee-jerk hatred of Jews, thus relegetaing the intellectual left as little more than a pimple on the rear end of Adolph Hitler. And for this it claims the moral high ground?
Israel can recover from this guy. At least Netanyahu is only humoring him, he hasn't let him appear on US TV. If the US can survive Cheney and Bolton, Israel can survive Lieberman. At least you don't have a DeMint or Perry.
Well done Yossi. Spot on. I am convinced that you are one of the good and brave people still left in Israel.
Time to send this thug packing,Yossi Sarit is 110% correct
What is happening with Israel? And it's people. This dreadful man should be in jail. For many reasons, but also for incitement and total disrespect for the law, morals and values which are supposed to be in Israel. I am shocked and saddened, that this is happening. It is disgusting! Yossie Sarid, I have always admired you. I send you my best wishes and greetings from Australia. I am Esther Korn's mother. Like you, she tried to make this world a better place. She is missed.
Bibi Netanyahu values power more than he cares for Israel. He made a deal with a man which any idiot could see was incompetent for the office he demanded. Netanyahu either was incompetent in not apprehending the incompetence of Lieberman, or his is negligent in tolerating it. Israel has chosen to be ruled by men which are even more reckless and malevolent than the Bush Junta which ruined America. Israel has what it wanted. And Israel is too deranged to get rid of them.
It's not about right or left. I am a centrist and yet I see the guy exactly as Yossi sees him. Don't defend the indefensible...you lose credibility.
It's not about right or left. I am a centrist and yet I see the guy exactly as Yossi sees him. Don't defend the indefensible...you lose credibility.
Other politicians could learn to grow a backbone like our foreign minister.
Yossi,you are the man!And you are right on the target.Keep up with a good work.
#1 nice fellow KOL HA KAVOD you are absolutly correct i add LEVEY ELDAR HASS and the rest of Haaretz writer also yarive Jstreet piss now God Bless you and we all pray to God to keep israel save not only from Arabs but from leftist
A true disgrace to Israel, Lieberman is a genuine thug and an illegal and immoral settler who has no place being the FM of Israel. But maybe this is what Israel has become, a right wing nation that is out of control, an occupier, oppressor, liar and a cheat. There will never be peace while the likes of Netanyahu and Lieberman are in power; they only know how to steal land and occupy.
Sarid's words are scary. The inkdrops are tears of terror victims, and their families, he and his buddies helped foster, and cover with a fig leaf. You, Sarid, are already a disgrace to the State and Jews worldwide. Lieberman is a true Statesman, offering to co-exist with the Arabs, but drawing the line with strength. You, and your buddies on the Left, have caused irreversible damage with the appeasement that oozes through your pores. Please don't cut down a fine Jew like Lieberman, only out to protect his countrymen from the demise YOU, Sarid, and the Beilins have wreaked upon the Holy Land. NOW, go in shame.
Like him or not, he's far from finished yet. Unless corruption investigators come back with something soon, he will remain in Israeli politics for another 20 years easily, very possibly with increasing prominence. He's only about 50.
A corrupt divisive bully........ sounds like a true Israeli politician.
Thanks for your learned opinion Yossele....a fine leftist peacenik like you must be very offended at anybody who believes in a strong response to terror. Whereas, a love child as you prefers to respond with roses and maybe a hookah?
He belongs in jail.
Their bitterness at the left's demise is trumped only by their arrogance.