Ayman Odeh Quotes
According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.
Lis, Jonathan. "Netanyahu Wants to Rule Like Caesar, Arab Lawmaker Says." Haaretz, Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd, 1 Mar. 2016.
Arguing the need to limit the power of the legislature:
Description of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for 71 straight years.
Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view.
Soon he had the power of a dictator but he didn’t force his will on the vast majority of the Cubans. His decrees made all the wealthy and the cronies of the dictator Batista outraged and most of them left Cuba. He was a dynamic demagogue and the people handed him dictatorial powers which he did not reject. He was so popular that he was the only leader in the Americas who would give 4 hour speeches and move through the streets without any bodyguards until the United States and dissident expatriates tried to assassinate him. With all that popularity, none the less he would not allow open criticism of his regime and jailed many political opponents. So he indeed became a dictator but never needed the machine gun to maintain power.
This is the argument—an essence of Fascism—of every dictator from Julius Caesar onward. See {640792} for more of his views on dictators.
Nine years later he was responsible for Napoleon’s election as Consul.
This quotation is inscribed on the FDR Memorial in Washington DC.
Ayman Odeh is an Israeli Arab lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) and leader of the Hadash party and Joint List alliance.
