LONDON – A former BBC correspondent turned anti-Israel activist compared Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik,
currently on trial for murdering 77 innocent people in a terror attack last
July.
In an article last Thursday on his website titled “What do Breivik
and Netanyahu have in common?” Alan Hart – a former BBC and ITN correspondent –
concluded by saying that the mass killer and Israel’s prime minister both share
“the mania of victimhood.”
The activist wrote that the main thing Breivik
and Netanyahu have in common comes from them both “living in fantasy worlds of
their own creation” and talking “a lot of extreme right-wing
nonsense.”
From this he concluded that Norway’s mass killer and Netanyahu
both suffer from what he called “the mania of victimhood.”
“The nonsense
Breivik speaks is driven in general by his fears about the consequences for
Norway of immigration and multiculturalism and, in particular, by his vision of
an Islamic takeover,” Hart maintained.
He then stated that the “nonsense”
Netanyahu speaks is driven by his perception of Israel in danger of
annihilation.
“As he tells and sells it, the current biggest threat to
Israel’s existence is, of course, Iran,” he said, going on to say, “Arguably the
single most ridiculous statement he has made to date on this subject was in 2006
when, as Likud chairman, he addressed a gathering of Jewish American
organizations and said, ‘it’s 1938 and Iran is Germany.’”
The activist ended by
saying that we know where Breivik’s mania led him, but “we can only speculate
about where Netanyahu’s mania will lead his Israel.”
An Israeli official
dismissed his comment as “another nutty statement from another nutty Israel
basher.”
Hart has long been an ardent critic of Israel and anti-Israel
campaigner. In 2005, he self-financed a three volume book titled Zionism: The
real enemy of the Jews.
Speaking at an event organized by the
pro-Hezbollah group Islamic Human Rights Commission in 2006, Hart blamed
mainstream media for complicity in the suppression of truth of history, out of
fear of offending Jews.
He said that “the anti-Semitism card is something
the Zionists have exploited to suppress debate.”
Writing in 2010, Hart
said that Israel is illegitimate as it came into being as a consequence of
“Zionist terrorism and pre-planned ethnic cleansing.”
Israel, he said,
“had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist
without the consent of the Palestinians, which they have never
given.”
The same year, Hart pointed to Mossad complicity in the 9/11
terrorist attacks of 2001, claiming that the planes were fitted with satellite
devices and that the Mossad had guided them into the towers, which also were
pre-wired to enable a controlled demolition.
Herb Keinon contributed to
this report.
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