Avraham Katz Oz, a former Labor minister, caused a stir this week when he wrote an article quoting Arik Sharon, who, according to Katz Oz’s explanation, used the term “Indians” to describe some Likud members. Katz Oz wrote that Netanyahu influences his voters because they are “a lot of ignorant people.” This morning (Monday), Katz-Oz spoke with Erel Segal and David Wertheim on 103FM and responded.
You wrote an article as a veteran Mapainik, in which you claim that Likud voters are Indians and they might do what Trump voters did in the United States?
“No, I did not say that. I raised the Indians ‘issue when I addressed the question of why Arik Sharon left the Likud, and the answer I received from Arik Sharon and his son Omri was’ because of the Indians. ‘I asked,’ What do you mean? ‘, So he said,’ This is the structure. “I’m not a Likud member, and I understood that the Indians are the same part of the Likud that did not have freedom, the Irgun, the Lehi, Jabotinsky and the Revisionists.”
You write, ‘Bibi has learned and knows the craft needed to lie and influence a lot of ignorant and self-thinking. Bibi knew how to oust the veteran freedom leaders, the Irgun, the Revisionists, the Zionist values, the Jabotinsky loyalists, and he stayed with the Flavian Indians. ‘If I understand you – there are the educated and good and decent and stately people, and there are the Indians ?
“I do not state this, but I do state that in my best estimation, Bibi did everything he could to expel from the Likud all those who were the infrastructure of Liberty, Etzel, Lehi, all the Jabotinskas and the Revisionists.”
You write that whoever votes for him is a lot of ignorant and self-thinking.
“Very often this is true, by the way, not only in the Likud, in many parties, including Mapai. “In my estimation, out of one million and 200,000 Likud voters, I determined for myself, this is my opinion, there are about 600,000 who are Bibi’s people and will do whatever he says, and there is no connection between them and any system of values or party system.”
You’re basically naive now, you’re actually giving them names.
“I used the term Indians, which I got from Arik Sharon and Omri Sharon as a reason for leaving the Likud. I do not know the internal structure of the Likud.”
Did you also bring the ignorant crowd of knowledge and self-thinking from Marik Sharon?
“No, I think a lot of ignorant people have both elections and Mapai and a lot of parties.”
You write, ‘It doesn’t matter what the court decides, if Bibi calls them, as Trump called his public, here too they will sue the Knesset and the Supreme Court.’
“True, I think there is such a danger. In my estimation, there is a danger in Israeli democracy that the same public – which in my opinion is loyal to Bibi without any connection to any party – that if Bibi tells them, ‘Come up and do the same thing done in the Capitol,’ they will do it, “That is my opinion. Therefore, I try to strengthen the view that the internal security check should be done before Bibi’s trial, because I do not know what he will decide when I see that all his political activity relates to the issue of his trial, and I am afraid.”
Although all the facts prove that the one who went out to demonstrate in the last year is the second camp, and the one who says, ‘I lay siege to Balfour’, the one who sometimes compares the prime minister to the Nazi oppressor, the one who stands outside his house, and says, afraid.
“I am afraid of them and I have written about it. I am very afraid. I also said and warned. I said I think that on the left side of the map there are no less lunatics than on the right side. “To be a disaster for the people of Israel. There are extremists on both sides. I am very afraid that there are lunatics on the left, no less than on the right.”