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Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Fashionable Again

(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Addressing the Israel Foreign Ministry's "Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism" in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: Three arguments are put forward by the anti-Semites all the time, and they are false all the time. The first is that Israel is guilty of war crimes. We, who fight war criminals with measured means, whose cities are attacked by terrorists who fire from built-up areas and try to pinpoint the rocketeers - we are accused of war crimes by the war criminals. The second is that we are expansionists, we don't want peace, we never agree to compromise. That's patently false. The State of Israel repeatedly has made concessions for peace that no other people or state has made in history. I don't know of any other case in which the victor made concessions in order to achieve peace, but we've done it again and again. The third argument is that we are violators of human rights. Israel is the one country in the region that recognizes the rights of everyone - women, minorities, every individual - who have access to the best court system in the world. Israel has a free press and a vibrant democracy, and Israel is accused of violating human rights. This is when in our neighborhood hundreds of people are massacred daily in neighboring regimes.
2013-05-29 00:00:00
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