WATCH: Netanyahu in interview: No protests in Israel (+ Remix!)

Noam Sheizaf By Noam Sheizaf July 30, 2011 | Edit

A common mistake for a leader is to take pride in things which he can’t anticipate or have little control over. This is Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu, in his much publicized YouTube interview, celebrating the absence of popular protest in Israel (17:00 min):

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Protesters are having lots of fun with this bit lately. Here is a nice mix by former entertainment journalist Noy Alooshe that’s circulating around the net today. The chants in the back say “the people want social justice.” The bit at the End shows Likud MK Miri Regev chased away from the Tel Aviv tent camp.

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BTW, there is an important side note to be made here about Netanyahu’s argument regarding “stable Israeli democracy”: Even without predicting the troubles that he would soon face, the Israeli PM was ignoring in his remarks one important fact: Israel has under its control over 3 million Palestinians who have no rights. For them Israel never was a democracy, and they never stopped protesting this fact.

Noam Sheizaf

Noam Sheizaf is an independent journalist and editor. He was the founding executive director and editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine. Prior to joining +972, he worked for Tel Aviv’s Ha-ir local paper, Ynet, and the Maariv daily, where his last position was deputy editor of the weekend magazine. He is currently working on a number of documentary films.

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