Defense Minister and Yisrael Beyteinu Chairman Avigdor Liberman has responded to Wednesday' inciteful article against religious Zionists by saying, "I call on all citizens of Israel to stop buying and stop reading Ha'aretz immediately. Haaretz has become a platform that gives widespread expression to the positions of Israel haters for a long time, but the publication of the article by Yossi Klein, a frustrated and unimportant journalist who failed as an editor, has crossed all the red lines.
Klein blatantly slanders the national-religious public, a wonderful and praiseworthy public that contributes to the strength and security of the state of Israel more than Klein and his colleagues at Haaretz will ever contribute. The fact that the editorial board of Haaretz decided to publish the article proves that the newspaper has lost all direction and that the self-hatred of the people of Haaretz toward everything Israeli and Jewish has completely changed them."