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Benjamin Netanyahu shows the number of votes cast for Jewish Zionist parties, in saying that Palestinians are not part of the equation in Israel.
At first,
today's New York Times article, on the role of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the endless post-election maneuvering, there looks like an improvement. But on closer inspection,
the report maintains most of the paper's chronic bias.
There are some positive signs. There's a valuable quotation from Yuval Diskin, a former head of Israel's security agency, who
criticizes Benjamin Netanyahu's use of anti-Arab racism against the Joint List, the political grouping that represents Arab citizens and just won 15 parliamentary seats in the latest election.
Netanyahu has been trying to torpedo efforts by the centrist Blue and White alliance to form a coalition government against him with outside votes of the Joint List, the 3rd-largest political force in the country. Diskin says:
"Dismissing more than half a million citizens by rendering the 15 members of the Joint List illegitimate, coupled with incitement against anyone who engages with them, crosses a red line."
Diskin's former position gives his words greater impact; if the 15 Palestinians were truly a security threat, he would know.
Times reporter David Halbfinger also quotes Dan Meridor, an old political warhorse from Netanyahu's own party, who says flatly that
the prime minister is "appealing to racists." Unfortunately, on balance
the Times article is still biased.
Comment: Varoufakis was told "the Eurogroup does not exist in law", therefore he could have no objections to whatever its dominant members decreed. Of course they do not want their dealings on record. 'We rule, you comply. We pillage, you submit.'
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