{"id":126552,"date":"2019-01-28T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126552"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T09:50:59","slug":"israeli-culture-minister-im-happy-to-be-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/israeli-culture-minister-im-happy-to-be-fascist\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Culture Minister: I\u2019m Happy to Be Fascist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>13 Dec 2018<em> &#8211; Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev says she is proud to be \u201cfascist\u201d and considers fascism an integral part of Israeli culture.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_126553\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-culture-minister-678x381-miri-regev.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126553\" class=\"wp-image-126553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-culture-minister-678x381-miri-regev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-culture-minister-678x381-miri-regev.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-culture-minister-678x381-miri-regev-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Culture Miri Regev attends a Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on January 27, 2016.<br \/>Photo by Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her remarks came in response to accusations made by famous graphic artist David Tartakover.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/telegra.ph\/Israeli-Culture-MinisterIm-proud-to-be-fascist-and-consider-fascism-as-part-of-the-Israeli-culture-12-12\" >Telegra.ph<\/a> reports: \u201cWhat is happening in Israel now is fascism,\u201d says Tartakover, who designed the logo for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace_Now\" >Peace Now campaign in 1978<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth nothing that the Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan has said: \u201cThe number [of peaceful Palestinian protesters] killed does not mean anything because they are just Nazis anyhow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdan repeatedly referred to the protesters killed in Gaza as \u201cNazis,\u201d saying that there were no demonstrations, just \u201cNazi anger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Defence Committee at the Israeli Parliament Avi Dichter has said: \u201cThe Israeli army has enough bullets for every Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as he was commenting in the peaceful protests of the Great March of Return along the eastern fence of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-Culture-Minister-Meri-Regev.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-Culture-Minister-Meri-Regev-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-Culture-Minister-Meri-Regev.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-Culture-Minister-Meri-Regev-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Israeli-Culture-Minister-Meri-Regev-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newspunch.com\/israeli-minister-happy-fascist\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 newspunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Dec 2018 &#8211; 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