Margi compares Kadima advisors to Nazi propagandists
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Livni says won't sell country ti haredim
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Shas MK: Only white people exist in Kadima
Battle between ruling party, ultra-Orthodox movement heating up. Shas faction chairman Yakov Margi slams Livni's advisors, comparing them to Nazi propagandists. 'Those who portrayed the haredim as extortionists grew up in habitat of those who painted Jews as mice,' he says
Shas
faction chairman, Knesset Member Yakov Margi, harshly slammed the Kadima
party on Sunday, comparing the conduct of the ruling party's election campaign advisors to that of Nazi propagandists.
According to the MK, "We can only imagine what the cartoons look like in Kadima's newspaper, expressing the messages emerging from their chairwoman's office. Those who portrayed the haredim as extortionists grew up in the habitat of those who painted Jews as mice."
Speaking in a closed meeting with Shas activists in Herzilya, Margi said, "Kadima's strategists would be made members of honor in any newspaper editorial board in Europe in the 1930s."
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He added that "today we understand what the strategists meant when they spoke of different politics. They meant white politics. As far as Kadima and its strategists are concerned, those who are not white do not exist, particularly if they are black."
'Kadima will end up like Shinui'
The Shas faction chairman compared between Kadima and the Shinui party, which was defeated in the Knesset elections after spending a short period of time in the government."I am amazed at those who claim to be the best strategists in the country. We already had one party which used the worst propaganda methods and was wiped off the map, because the public denounced it and vomited because of it. Kadima will likely end up like Shinui."
Margi was referring to Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni's declarations that she "will not sell the State to the haredim".
He turned to the activists and asked them, "Can we afford to have such a party in the Israeli public arena? The Kadima members' lack of knowledge of the Jewish holy and literary sources is reminiscent of the ignorance of the Shinui members. The question is if this is ignorance or wickedness. In Shinui it was wickedness, and Kadima is closing the gap towards Shinui."
Earlier Sunday, Livni slammed remarks made by Shas' spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who claimed in his weekly sermon that "secular teachers are asses".
"I heard what Shas is saying about education, and they want the education portfolio," said the Kadima chairwoman. "I know what it will look like in their hands and I say no. Some people would it to give them - I wouldn't. Anyone who wants the education portfolio to be in Shas' hands shouldn't vote for me."
