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Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before the 2006 elections.

Sarid holds a Master's degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. He writes a weekly column for the daily, Haaretz, which during the 2006 political campaigns published his ongoing commentary on the Israeli political scene.
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5-6-2009 8:21 AM
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They say of Raful (Rafael Eitan) that at the end of the Yom Kippur War he hosted a delegation of United States congressmen on a fact-finding mission. They visited the Golan Heights and looked out over Quneitra.One guest asked with fear and trepidation whether all this destruction was absolutely necessary.

Raful let him have it: "And what did you do to the Indians?" he asked. At that the members of the delegation stopped asking questions. We have to learn from Raful, that's exactly how Israel has to explain itself, without stuttering.
... Ha'aretz

On 12 April 1983 Eitan said in a Knesset committee meeting:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Eitan#Political_career[b]...
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