On Wednesday, the secretariat of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, changed the title of a motion considering US military documents soon to be released by the website WikiLeaks. The initial proposal, n "U.S. War Crimes", was put forward by a right-wing MK Michael Ben-Ari.
Any guess about who stood up against this proposal? Full marks if you said Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon:
I don't know if you did this to be defiant or teasing or maybe even just out of black humor. I just have no other way of looking at this.
In Jerusalem, in the Israeli house of legislation, this is how we present something like this?. This is terrible, and not just from a utilitarian perspective. The fact that the U.S. is our best and strongest friend cannot be appealed.
MK Ben-Ari, I completely appreciate your parliamentary abilities, but you are almost wasting a motion for the agenda.
Had you said "Al-Qaida war criminals", I would have understood. Had you said "the report that emerged, that was leaked", I would understand. But "U.S. war crimes"?