Kach protesters attacked by Minister Livnat's bodyguards
By IMRA February 6, 2005
Channel 2 Television News featured a report tonight that claimed that some "Kach men" "attacked" Minister of Education Limor Livnat "in every way". The filmed report tells a different story:
Minister Limor Livnat is a member of the Likud who opposes Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan but opted to join with other Likud ministers who, as critics put it, favor remaining in the cabinet more than they oppose disengagement.
Channel 2 taped Kach activist Itamar Ben-Gvir and others as they harangued Livnat at she walked from the annual memorial ceremony for Lehi commander Yair Stern. Livnat was walking with her mother, a former member of the Lehi nationalist underground.
Ben Gvir: "Tell me Limor. Limor. Yair would have supported expelling Jews? To uproot Jews? To uproot Synagogues? Shame!"
[To a body guard who apparently takes a shove at him] "Don't touch me! Shame!"
Narrator: "They attacked her every way"
Ben Gvir: "Expelling Jews from their homes - how can this be?"
Another protestor to reporter: "They are going to expel Jews so he yells. He is 100% justified."
"Yair died for the Land of Israel"
Several protestors: "Yair would be embarrassed by you"
Livnat tries to give a sound bite talking to him before cameras but Ben Gvir says that he won't let her have a sound bite unless she first hears his line.
Ben Gvir: "Your parents had such grace. So much credit"
and Livnat repeats that she wants to first have her say and Ben Gvir says "OK but you will hear me first" and she walks away.
Narrator: "They said things to her mother"
Ben Gvir: "Your parents have so much to their credit. How can you?"
A bodyguard can be seen clearly shoving Ben Gvir and then a second a bodyguard attacks him.
The item concludes with Limor Livnat criticizing the presence of the "Feiglins" in the Likud.
It should be noted that the words used to describe what transpired implied that the protestors used violence. The same incident could have been described as "haranguing".
The anti-Feiglin remarks coincide with the upcoming Likud Central Committee vote. Members of Feiglin's Manhigut Yehudit group in the Central Committee are participating in the vote and there is concern that while they will all vote, others won't.
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