Gordon Liddy Wears Orange

Gordon Liddy, one of America's top radio talk show hosts is proudly wearing orange in Israel:

Fromm Haaretz:

                                               

He's orange, Gordon Liddy, he's orange

By Yossi Melman

Among the thousands of demonstrators who gathered at Kfar Maimon two weeks ago in the July heat of the Negev, the figure of a man no longer young, his bald head gleaming, stood out from the crowd. In a short-sleeved blue shirt decorated with paratrooper's wings he did not look like he belonged to that time and place. In contrast to the fierce looks, the disheveled hair and the loud voices of the disengagement opponents, G. Gordon Liddy is soft-spoken, chooses his words carefully and dresses neatly. Yet nevertheless, the rhetoric of one of the main characters in the Watergate affair is very like that of the Jewish settlers. "During my visit I have formed the impression from meeting with people that [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is carrying out the disengagement only to avoid prosecution. This is not a decision anchored in his worldview. He has no intention and is making no effort to achieve peace," Liddy said in a conversation with Haaretz. Liddy picked up his "impressions" of the disengagement from right-wing leaders - MKs Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Uzi Landau (Likud), heads of the Yesha Council of settlements like Pinhas Wallerstein and extremists like Nadia Matar.

In the decision to disengage he sees a clear recipe for "disaster." According to him, "The disengagement will encourage the Arab terrorists. They will say: `Look, we'll kill some more Jews, we'll send some more rockets and they'll fold.' We, the Americans, made mistakes like that in Lebanon. After the terrorists blew up the Marine base near Beirut, we withdrew. And we repeated the mistake in Somalia. Retreats from terrorists encourage terror.[link]

For those of us accustomed to freedom of speech in the good old USA the tone of Haaretz is disgusting. But even they could not spoil Gordon Liddy's words.

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