Jun 28, 2010
Barak

Israeli leader endorses terrorism

Tzipi Livni, Head of the Opposition Kadima Party in Israel and former Foreign Minister:

Both of [my parents] were in the Irgun. They were freedom fighters…they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons.

Perhaps I am reading this wrong, but it sure sounds like an endorsement of terrorism to me (even the Government of Israel said the Irgun was a terrorist organization – it did, you know, blow up stuff and kill people). Maybe her parents were the good kind of terrorist, while today we only have the bad type.

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