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Moron Yair Lapid tells Charlie Rose Jews are safer in New York than in Israel

What a stupid comment for an Israeli MK to make, but we ought to be used to it from Yair Lapid.

Let's go to the videotape (if you can stand nearly an hour and 12 minutes of this moron - if not skip below the video).



A lot of MK's are unhappy with Lapid.

These comments piggybacked off remarks Lapid made on his Facebook page on September 30, following an interview on Channel 10, that he was “a little impatient” with people leaving Israel to live in Berlin.

In front of an audience on Monday he declared that he lives in Israel “because I want to live in a country that’s a place but also an idea.”

Back in Israel, coalition and opposition MKs criticized Lapid for the remark, saying he sounded like he was discouraging aliya.

“Lapid needs to decide if he’s for people leaving Israel or against it,” MK Yoni Chetboun (Bayit Yehudi) said. “Living in Israel isn’t about security, it’s about Zionism.”

Labor Party MK Nachman Shai said that “20,000 Jews in Berlin or a million-and-a-half in New York are not more or less safe than the 6.5 million Jews in Israel. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people – [Lapid] must remember that and lead with that message.”

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to three American Jews on Wednesday, two of whom are former Israelis.  So does Lapid want them to come back or doesn't he? Based on his lousy economic policies, I would say he'd rather that Israelis leave.

Some of you might recall his father Tommy making similarly stupid comments in 2002 (when 400 American Jews made aliya at the height of the intifada) about Israel being able to do without 'religious North American Jews.'

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?

Labels: aliya, Israeli Knesset, morons, Yair Lapid

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:20 PM