Yair Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister's Son, Creates Facebook Ruckus With

[JayAtl]

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli prime minister's 19-year-old son posted disparaging comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, an Israeli paper reported Friday.

Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu posted that Muslims "celebrate hate and death," the Haaretz daily reported. After Palestinian assailants entered a West Bank settlement and stabbed five members of an Israeli family to death, he wrote that "terror has a religion and it is Islam."

Yair Netanyahu, the eldest of the prime minister's two sons, is currently a soldier in the Israeli military's media liaison unit.

A lawyer for the Netanyahu family, David Shimron, said the comments were those of a "teenager" and were "taken out of context in an attempt to defame the prime minister and his family," Shimron said in a statement provided to The Associated Press.

According to the Haaretz report, the prime minister's son also ran a Facebook group that called for a boycott of Arab businesses and products, and used obscenities to describe Arabs. He was 17 at the time. The group had a total of 23 members, the paper reported.

In another comment, he wrote that there had never been a Palestinian state and that he hoped "there would never be one."

Haaretz said the comments in question were removed within two hours of the paper's request for a response from the prime minister's representatives.

The younger Netanyahu's Facebook page also included comments on the Israeli version of the TV show Big Brother and a "like" directed at Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, alongside photos of himself with world leaders like Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi.

A military spokesman said commanders had spoken to Netanyahu "to clarify to the soldier the military commands, outlining his mistakes, as would be done with any soldier in a similar situation."

Some of the comments predated his military service, the military said.

Shimron, the Netanyahu family's attorney, slammed Haaretz for reporting the comments.

"Bringing them up now is ridiculous and shows the cynical use of the words of a teenager, said in anger, when he could not imagine that someone would someday make use of them," the lawyer wrote.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife believe in moderation and tolerance, and they respect all people without regard for their religion, origin or nationality and that is how they raise their children," the statement said.

The families of Israeli leaders have typically been kept out of the spotlight, but Netanyahu's family has sometimes drawn media attention in ways that have been a liability for the Israeli leader.

Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister's third wife, has been criticized for allegedly mistreating her household staff and for meddling in state affairs. She has denied the accusations.

 

[Leader]

born zionist !!

 

[Mabs]

If it made him happy, we are cool with it. A link would have been nice though. If it was a huge issue, Al-Jazeera would have over-reported it and CNN would have under-reported it.

 

[JayAtl]

^^^ darn- you read my other thread eh? here is the link Yair Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister's Son, Creates Facebook Ruckus With Arab, Muslim Posts

 

[saleen_s7]

And they blame the Palestinians for teaching them to hate the jews from birth.

 

[JayAtl]

The kid is a punk and his upbringing shows it. No doubt about it...

 

[PteX]

So what? The only reason this was reported is because he is the son of the Prime Minister.
He is allowed to say what he wants, like the Pro-Palestinian activists who call Israeli soldiers murderers, who are you to get high and mighty about what he says?
I`ve read a thousand times Pakistanis and Bangladeshis insulting and spewing hatred against Hindus and Jews and vice versa...

 

[Tshering22]

Big deal. More than half the Arab world wants to obliterate every Jew and spares no "freedom of speech" clause to stress on that. So what if he made a comment? It is not like that is going to do any physical damage to the Arab or Islamic world, isn't it? I mean come on, you both are enemies and enemies don't usually talk nice things about each other.

 

[JayAtl]

So what? The only reason this was reported is because he is the son of the Prime Minister.
He is allowed to say what he wants, like the Pro-Palestinian activists who call Israeli soldiers murderers, who are you to get high and mighty about what he says?
I`ve read a thousand times Pakistanis and Bangladeshis insulting and spewing hatred against Hindus and Jews and vice versa...

It does matter because we expect better from the kids of our Presidents and Prime ministers and from those come from so called educated backgrounds. It's called being a spoiled brat who has embarrassed his country because of his fathers stature.

since when what the other side says equate to getting down in the gutters and stooping to their level a-okay? this is a despicable hate mongering, bigoted statement made by him. period.

 

[Mabs]

^^^ darn- you read my other thread eh? here is the link Yair Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister's Son, Creates Facebook Ruckus With Arab, Muslim Posts

Don't know what you are talking about man but a news without a link is like a care without fuel. It might look shiny but won't be of much practical use.

 

[Mabs]

So what? The only reason this was reported is because he is the son of the Prime Minister.
He is allowed to say what he wants, like the Pro-Palestinian activists who call Israeli soldiers murderers, who are you to get high and mighty about what he says?
I`ve read a thousand times Pakistanis and Bangladeshis insulting and spewing hatred against Hindus and Jews and vice versa...

People tend to generalize but we or at least I do not hate Jews,Hindus or Christians for that matter.What I do disagree with is certain policies of Israel, India or the US. There's no point in hating the general populace but if the general public approves of the unjust policies of their respective governments, then yes you do tend to harbor animosity towards them as well. it is just human nature and not limited to any specific nationality.

 

[PteX]

It does matter because we expect better from the kids of our Presidents and Prime ministers and from those come from so called educated backgrounds. It's called being a spoiled brat who has embarrassed his country because of his fathers stature.

since when what the other side says equate to getting down in the gutters and stooping to their level a-okay? this is a despicable hate mongering, bigoted statement made by him. period.

First off he is a private citizen and has the freedom to say what he wants. And with regards to your expectations, you expect too much.
I`ve read more than was reported in this article and he was talking about how Muslims were celebrating the slaughter of 3 Jewish children(including 1 infant) and their parents, handing out candy in celebration after the fogel massacre, in Gaza and West Bank villages.

 

[JayAtl]

First off he is a private citizen and has the freedom to say what he wants. And with regards to your expectations, you expect too much.
I`ve read more than was reported in this article and he was talking about how Muslims were celebrating the slaughter of 3 Jewish children(including 1 infant) and their parents, handing out candy in celebration after the fogel massacre, in Gaza and West Bank villages.

you don't get it- don't care what he was talking about in reference to, he could have protested it without being equally bigoted. Maligning all Muslims is equally bigoted as maligning all Jews. if you can't handle being above the frey that then don't complain about the other side ever...

 

[JonAsad]

Great- More statements like these in coming years- and he will have the inherit qualifications necessary for becoming Israel's PM- "hate for Muslims"-

 

[Xestan]

And this is the reason why Illegal State of Israel is the most hated "country" in the world!