Asked about the results of a Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper poll published Monday, which showed that 56 percent of Israelis supported the road map, Haetzni said:
"Yes, of course. And the Jews also willingly boarded those trains, believing everything that the Germans told them. The Jews are a people which is very dangerous to itself. It is a people that has brought Holocausts down on itself throughout the course of its history," he told Israel Radio.
"It is a people that has extraordinary powers of construction, and extraordinary powers of destruction. It builds and destroys, and this is an intrinsic part of Sharon's personality - Sharon is the greatest builder that we have had, and the greatest destroyer. Today he is in a destruction phase."
Haetzni said that the road map would inevitably set Israel on a collision course with the United States, its closest ally and supplier of billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Haaretz 26/05/2003
