Knitted News14.03.22 20:39 11 Adar B. Tishpev
Katie Sheetrit (Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90)
The shameful statement of Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the cabinet meeting led to a series of protests by Knesset members.
According to a report by “Globes” reporter Shirit Avitan HaCohen, during the cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said that “the mayors want the Ukrainians.” In response, Lieberman replied: “Some only want the Ukrainians.”
Dafna Liel added that “no one put Lieberman on the spot, and the ministers laughed at the expense of the Ukrainians in his courtesy. Lieberman asked to delete the comment from the minutes after it was leaked.”
MK Katie Sheetrit (Likud) responded: “Now imagine one of the Likud MKs saying such a sexist remark. There were open studios here, interviews with women’s organizations, Tamar Zandberg and Merav Michaeli would bombard posts, signs in Ayalon, what not? But it’s Lieberman and he’s one of the people who are upset because they are not in the Bibi camp, so everything will pass. “
MK Merav Michaeli issued a weak response and wrote: “There are things that are not a joke. Loss, death, escape, they are not a joke. The Minister of Finance asked to delete from his minutes his outrageous statement about Ukrainian women. I hope this is the last time such things are said about women. “Who have always paid the price for the war that men decide on.”
MK Simcha Rotman (Religious Zionism): “I think Lieberman should bless the retribution. If he had made such a remark when he sang in the Netanyahu government, Haman’s tree would have been relatively low compared to the stigma that would have been placed on him in the town square. Fortunately, he is now one of the right guys. And all the hypocrites can go on the agenda. “
Knesset members from Shas went on a rampage against Lieberman.
We are used to the truth of Lieberman that lies in his “jokes” such as the wheelbarrows for the ultra-Orthodox! But MK Yulia Malinowski, who is legislating against the exclusion of women in the public sphere: “Look what the boss thinks of them.”
MK Michael Malkieli said: “In the ultra-Orthodox women he took revenge and took them out of the labor force. He sent the independents to study a profession and sip coffee in their face cruelly. Now, he is joking at the expense of war refugees who have lost everything precious to them, in a moment.
MK Yoav Ben-Zur: “Throughout his public years, Lieberman behaved cruelly and wickedly with zero compassion for human beings. The shameful and ugly expressions of the past on the ultra-Orthodox sector and today on women should shock every citizen. In a democracy there is no place for politicians whose hatred is worldview.”
MK Moshe Arbel said: “Lieberman’s ugly and humiliating remarks against women fleeing war and fearing for their lives, teach about rudeness, opacity and heartlessness. Even in the jokes of the mind must not contain his ugly words. “Everyone who respects human dignity before his eyes is expected to condemn his words.”
MK Yossi Tayeb in response to Finance Minister Lieberman’s remarks: “A narrow and cruel finance minister whose contempt for human dignity is part of his way of life has no place in the public system. “You started harming the ultra-Orthodox women and their children, you heard the crying and crying of the independent representative in the committee and sipped coffee, and now you are speaking in disgrace against women who are fighting for their lives and the lives of their children. Enough cruelty.”
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