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Apr. 5, 2021 12:46 PM
With great enthusiasm and eagerness did the correspondents on the Israeli channel Kan 11 report on candidates for the Palestinian parliament who in the past have borne arms, were involved in killing Israelis, and were or still are incarcerated in Israeli prisons. In short, what we call “terrorists.” They also reported on the wife of a certain Hebron resident who killed and was killed, and who is No. 2 on the official Fatah list (loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas).
The blindfolds covering the eyes of Israelis, which they refuse to remove or don’t even notice, are too numerous to count. In the past two years alone, for example, the “Anyone but Bibi” camp has pinned its hopes on three MKs who are former Israeli army chiefs of staffs – Benny Gantz, Moshe Ya’alon and Gabi Ashkenazi. It’s impossible to calculate the precise number of Palestinians and Lebanese (includin