Text: Leftist MK's words - that could readily apply to the secular messianic
left

"We are facing a domestic enemy. That internal enemy is far more dangerous
today than Arafat or Assad or any other Arab figure. True, the internal
enemy is not very large in terms of the force at its disposal. We're talking
about no more than a few hundred people, about fanatical groups of the
extreme.... But those people constitute an existential danger because they
touch our most sensitive nerve. They touch our ability to survive as one
society, democratic in character.

"...this is a determined minority that is absolutely convinced that it is
the elite. Only they know what is right for the State of Israel. Only they
can lead the State of Israel.... And for that end, every means is justified.
Every means.

...they will bring Israel to a historic rift. At the moment of truth they
will not be able to give in without a fight. And the moment .... The enemy
is a fanatical domestic group that is trying to undermine Israeli democracy.

"When Israeli sovereignty is facing an unrestrained messianic minority ...

Yahad-Meretz MK Avshalom (Abu) Vilan in interview
The coming civil war - Ari Shavit Haaretz Magazine 20 August 2004
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/467046.html