French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s blunt speaking has finally uttered something right: get rid of fascist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

While meeting with far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, Sarkozy advised “You need to get rid of this man.”

Lieberman has risen in Israeli politics as the leader of the fascist Yisrael Beitenu party. An extreme right-wing party that advocates loyalty-to-Zionism tests for Arabs in Israel. His party [along with other fascist allies], which came in third in the February 10 election, has recently put forth bills in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, that would end free speech that is critical of Zionism and that remembers the 800,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homes by Zionist terrorist militia forces in 1948:

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, gave preliminary approval to a bill that would mandate a year jail term for anyone who speaks against Israel’s status as a Jewish state on Wednesday morning.

The bill, which still needs final approval before coming law, passed after a heated debate with a vote of 47 to 34 and one abstention. The measure was originally introduced by Zevulun Orlev, a member of a right-wing religious nationalist party, Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home).

The bill’s passage comes three days after lawmakers advanced a bill that would ban all commemorations of Nakba Day, on which Palestinians, including those who are Israeli citizens, remember their expulsion of 1948.

According to news reports, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, Jamal Zahalka, was removed from the auditorium during an argument after the vote.

This is the nation that likes to claim [falsely] that it is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Sarkozy’s comments should have awaken Israeli society that their country is becoming a militarist, extremist [even more so than usual] parish state. But Israelis instead responded with indignation that someone would dare to utter criticism of their dear foreign minister.

A former Israeli ambassador to France:

“If these remarks were indeed made, what we have here is an interference in the internal affairs of a friendly country. This is an inappropriate act which is unacceptable on the diplomatic level.”

When Austria included a far-right-winger in its government, Israel withdrew its ambassador. But when Israel includes a far-right-winger, and a former party member of the outlawed terrorist party Kach, it expresses outrage that anyone would dare to criticize what some deluded Israelis call a “respected world leader”.

The hubris and entitlement of this militaristic nation will be part of its undoing.