Liberman: Darwish will only be taught on radio to ‘know enemy’

Liberman is asked by MK Masoud Ghanaim about Liberman’s crackdown on Army Radio over the station broadcasting a piece on Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Ghanaim angrily takes Liberman to task for comparing Darwish to Hitler.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman holds up a picture of himself as a new army recruit at an IDF induction ceremony at the Tel Hashomer army base outside Tel Aviv on July 25, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman holds up a picture of himself as a new army recruit at an IDF induction ceremony at the Tel Hashomer army base outside Tel Aviv on July 25, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman answers by quoting from one of Darwish’s less Israel-friendly passages, and says as long as Army Radio is under his control it will only talk about Darwish as part of “knowing your enemy.”

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