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one should also speak of the piggery that is the essence of capitalism.
Capitalist pigs change, but the method always remains. And how can
attorney Eldad Yaniv who represents the capital-occupation symbiosis (for example, he represents the municipality of Ariel and powerful
employers) preach?18

THE WOMAN DOES NOT EXIST

The left believes that the two most important struggles in the realm that
lies between the (Mediterranean) Sea and the (Jordan) River are liberation and equality for the Palestinian and liberation and equality for the
woman. The left believes it is a joint complementary struggle. The woman,
in our realm, is traded as a sex slave on Allenby Street,19 in what is called
an erotic club, and is murdered in Ramle or in Acre, for what is called
family honor, and there is no protector, for the manifesto of the national
left is so masculine that the woman has been left out and forgotten...

FIXING THE SEWER: PRESENT ABSENTEE

The authors of the manifesto write:

If you want to talk to them (to the Arabs) about national service,20
connect their villages to the sewerage.
For historic justice, the only ones to have treated them with that level
of dignity, if only for a short period, were Aryeh Deri from the Shas
party and Moshe Arens from the Likud.21 If their counterparts from the
national left have ever done anything, it was but to win votes. It cannot
be helped: our Arabs are Palestinians, and when the national left sent
its glorious army to sow destruction in Gaza, it turned out that many
families from the Galilee lost their dear ones and once again realized they
are Palestinians. And when Eldad Yaniv called for killing Gaza without
18. Ariel is one of the largest settlements, located in the central West Bank.
19. Allenby is a major street in Tel Aviv.
20. Exempt from military servicewhich is compulsory for other ethnicities in
IsraelIsraeli Arabs are often criticized for not opting for voluntary national
service.
21. Shas is an ultra-Orthodox party identified with Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

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