Bradley Burston When Israel threatens Palestinians with a new Nakba, it threatens itself with extinction
When Israel threatens Palestinians with a new Nakba, it threatens itself with extinctio *** haaretz.com What does it say about Israel that a senior cabinet minister, who is also bland as mush, feels it necessary at a time of edge-of-war tensions with the Palestinians to take to Israeli television and to Facebook to deliver a message of pure, weapons-grade incitement? Minister of Regional Cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi, a key Netanyahu ally who often enunciates and defends the policies of the prime minister, has long been seen as a force of relative moderation in the most fiercely hard-line government in the nation's history. Nonetheless, this week, as Israel faced eruptions of violence at home and with its neighbors, Hanegbi used one of the most incendiary terms possible to warn Palestinians of the possible consequences of the brutal Friday night murders of three Israelis, a 70-year-old man and two of his adult children: "This is how