-Caveat Lector- Electronic Telegraph 2/2/99 Netanyahu slogan is condemned as 'fascist' FROM ROSS DUNN IN JERUSALEM THE Israeli Prime Minister caused uproar yesterday with his election slogan, "a strong leader for a strong people", which critics said echoed Nazi and fascist propaganda. Avraham Burg, chairman of the Jewish Agency and a candidate for the Opposition Labour Party, appealed to Binyamin Netanyahu to drop the slogan. He said it reminded many people of the Nazi party slogan and insulted Holocaust survivors and their families. "The sound of 'a strong leader, a strong people' is coming directly from the conceptual framework of the Third Reich of 50 to 60 years ago," he said. Mr Burg said many had phoned him to say that politicians must refrain from adopting any sloganeering reminiscent of the language of Nazi Germany. Shlomo Ben-Ami, another Labour personality, accused Mr Netanyahu of raising the "spectre of fascism". Dan Meridor, who quit Mr Netanyahu's Cabinet to join a new centre party, said the Likud slogan for the May 17 election was "not suitable for democratic governments". Professor Michael Harsegor, of Tel Aviv University, said: "It has no place in the free world. It is used only in dictatorships. The things that Likud is saying now, Franco's Spaniards, and Mussolini's Italians said in the past. The same thing was done by dictators in Eastern Europe in the 1950s." Professor Zeev Sternhall, of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, said he was unnerved by the Likud slogan. "It ran the fascist Right in Italy and France after the Second World War and it is astonishing it is being used in Israel. "I do not know a single democratic country in the world that would adopt such a slogan, because it is a message that is frightening and sickening." It awakened a sense that Israelis do not belong to Western culture, he said. Strong leadership was not perceived as determined or brave, but rather as dismissive of the democratic order. A defiant Mr Netanyahu, who faces a tight contest against Ehud Barak, the Labour leader, and Yitzhak Mordechai, head of a new centre party, defended the slogan. He said the words highlighted Likud's hardline approach in dealing with Palestinians. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
