An Israeli settlement activist likened the official in charge of implementing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement plan” to a Nazi collaborator. “The truth is that you are a modern version of the Judenrat,” Nadia Matar, leader of the right-wing group Women in Green, wrote to Yonatan Bassi this week.
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