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Monday, December 26, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Monday, December 26, 2016
Liberman likens French peace summit to Dreyfus Affair
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman slates the France’s January 15 Middle East peace conference as a “tribunal against the State of Israel,” and compares it to the Dreyfus Affair. The 1894 trial — in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was wrongfully accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment — is seen as a seminal anti-Semitic event of modern times.
Alfred Dreyfus (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“This is not a peace conference, this is a conference whose purpose is to harm Israel’s security and reputation, and it is a trial against the State of Israel,” Liberman says. “I would go further and say … that this is a modern-day Dreyfus trial. There is one difference — instead of just one Jew, the State of Israel is in the dock.”
