Left, right, left, right: a sad day for Israel

The ultra-left and extra-right elements in our country continue feeding one another's hate and rhetorics. The day when Knesset approved establishment of inquiry commission into funding of left-wing Israeli organizations is to be remembered as a day of shame for all of us.

And this story is only a fitting end for this shameful episode.

National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari referred to members of the leftist organizations as "traitors who must be persecuted at any cost." Speaking at an SOS Israel conference in Jerusalem Wednesday evening, Ben-Ari called the leftists "germs" and "enemies of Israel."The rightist lawmaker went as far as equating the leftist organizations to Hamas and Hezbollah.


In an audio tape obtained by Ynet, Ben-Ari can be heard saying, "Elements that want to destroy the Jewish state are operating within the State of Israel. They are nothing short of traitors. They are persecuting IDF soldiers and want to castrate our resilience.

Here is the pontificating hate-mongering schmuck:

This unending race between Stalinists and fascists is getting up my nose. Doesn't it get up yours?