THE JERUSALEM POST: Jerusalem dismisses comment as "another nutty statement from another nutty Israel basher."
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. » | Jonny Paul, Jerusalem Post Correspondent | Herb Keinon contributed to this report | Sunday, April 22, 2012
