World tired of us: Israeli minister
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:54:59 GMT
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Israeli Minister of Trade, Industry and Labor, Binyamin Ben-Elezier
Israeli
Minister of Trade, Industry and Labor, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, says the
world is tired of Israel and that Israel, rather than the Gaza Strip,
is actually blockaded.
"We're not the ones maintaining a blockade. We're blockaded,
utterly isolated. We're in a situation where the world is tired of us,"
the Jewish Daily quoted Ben-Elezier as saying in an interview in the
Yediot Ahronot Friday supplement.
"They're tired of hearing our explanations, of showing empathy for
our troubles, even if they're real troubles. (The world is) Tired of
understanding us. This business just isn't working anymore. After 43
years, nobody wants to hear any more explanations about why this
occupation is continuing and how we have nobody to talk to." Elezier
continued.
Born in 1936 in Basra in southern Iraq, Binyamin “Fuad” Ben-Eliezer
is the senior leader of the Labor Party’s hawkish wing, a
tough-as-nails ex-general and currently the party’s grand old man.
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