Israeli Defense Minister Who Resigned Over Extremism Replaced With Extremist
Announcing his resignation on Friday, Yaalon said, “In general, Israeli society is a healthy society, and the majority of it is sane and aims for a Jewish, democratic and liberal country. But to my great sorrow, extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel and the Likud Party and are shaking the foundations and threatening to hurt its residents.”
Lieberman—a former nightclub bouncer from Moldova who served as Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, before resigning amid a corruption case in 2012 (he was acquitted in 2013)—has called for the introduction of the death penalty as a punishment for terrorism and the transferral of Israeli Arabs to the Palestinian territories.
Last year, Lieberman said that Israeli Arabs found to be disloyal to the state of Israel should be beheaded: “Those who are against us, there’s nothing to be done—we need to pick up an ax and cut off his head…Otherwise we won’t survive here.”
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