Glenn Beck manages to unite left and right in Israel: against him
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Not content with making enemies at home, the former Fox News presenter Glenn Beck is upsetting Israelis. Even before arriving in the country for a mass rally tonight, he attempted to characterise middle-class activists taking part in a cost of living protest in Tel Aviv as communists in league with Islamic extremists.
Beck had totally misunderstood the situation. Protesters had gone to great lengths to be politically neutral. They even suspended their protests last week after Palestinian militants killed eight people in an attack on Israeli buses near Eilat.
And that's only the start of Beck's problems in Israel.
Tonight's 'Restoring Courage' rally in Jerusalem is intended "to show the world the courage of Israelis and the choice between good and evil". Yet Beck has achieved the astonishing feat of uniting against him the left-leaning group Peace Now, which promotes a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with, at the other extreme, a group of right-wingers who want to annexe the Palestinian territories and offer Palestinians money to emigrate to other countries.
Re: Glenn Beck manages to unite left and right in Israel: against him
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Beck had totally misunderstood the situation.
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