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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Council head slams Yogev’s ‘screwed’ comment
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEshkol Council head Haim Jelin slams Jewish Home’s Moti Yogev following Yogev’s comments to residents of Gaza periphery communities. Yogev earlier told representatives of the communities: “You supported the Disengagement – now you’re screwed.”
Jelin says: “Jewish Home – the party of ‘brothers’ – again shows its true face. From medieval comments on same-sex marriage, through miserable comments on drafting women to the IDF, up to the total shamelessness in saying the security reality in the south is somehow the fault of Gaza periphery residents.
“Jewish Home has become a far-right party tearing the nation apart instead of trying to unite it.”
Jelin is expected to join the Knesset slate of the Yesh Atid party,
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