In the first hours that have passed since Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai stated in an interview following the killing of an Al-Jazeera reporter in Jenin, that "Israel's credibility is not the highest in such events, and it is based on the past," I saw his words quoted and copied Languages, starring in foreign media.
The next day they were already featured prominently, as headlines, antisemitic websites and accounts, and won countless shares.
If I were the chairman of the PA, or just an ordinary hater of Israel, I would send Shai a huge bouquet of flowers.
In one stroke of the tongue, the Minister of Diaspora succeeded in providing valuable ammunition to the propaganda mechanisms that undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state and its positions.
These have always claimed that Israel kills innocent people and then hides its "crimes."
And here comes a minister in the Israeli government and actually joins them.
A minister who has treated his country with accusation of unreliability and hints that it tends to lie is a rare gift to the chorus of enemies waiting for our downfall.
Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh could not have done it better.
It is doubtful whether Shai himself understands the magnitude of the damage he has done to us all, because otherwise he would have submitted his resignation from the government immediately.
His unfortunate statement nullifies all the right actions that Israel took after the incident in Jenin.
What good will the investigations, pathological reports or ballistic analyzes now prove, that the journalist was killed by Palestinian terrorists? After all, the winning card will be drawn against them - the "confession" of the Israeli minister.
The damages are not reduced to the current affair.
The motif of "unreliability of the Jews" is taken directly from the traditional lie dictionary of the anti-Semites, and is regularly used by them from the ancient world through the Middle Ages to modern times.
The anti-Semites particularly liked him for his wondrous usefulness.
The Jews claim that they do not kill children for ritual purposes and do not need baby blood to make matzah?
Do not trust in denial, for they are unreliable.
Jews say they do not poison wells and do not spread epidemics?
Do not give weight to their arguments, they are unreliable.
Do the Jews explain that they are loyal to the land of their birth and will not sell it to the enemy?
They just want to disguise their treachery, because they are unreliable.
The antisemitic narrative was so fond of accusing the Jews of unreliability that the accusation was eroded to the core.
Therefore, in order to give it validity, the reinforcement was usually brought from among the Jews themselves - a Jew (usually a convert) who would declare and confess: Yes, we are liars.
Such Jews brought disaster and annihilation to their communities, because following their "testimony" any charge against a Jewish community seemed to be proven.
Shai's remarks were an explanatory mega-attack, the results of which will not be erased for years to come.
The Internet remembers everything, and even in the future, when Israel will have to fend off the false plots of Palestinian propaganda, they will wave his statement and explain that even an Israeli minister, and another who was an IDF spokesman, does not believe in his country.
If we were in court, Shai should have been declared a hostile witness.
In the current political reality, where every king bastard and every member of the PM or the joint list saves the government from collapsing, even a hostile minister will continue to serve in his position, and it is a pity that this is the case.
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