Israeli Gita Boaron, who says she is a distant cousin Muammar Qaddafi, recalls she played with him as a child and that ”he was a good boy” – before he became dictator.
Previously interviewed by Arutz Sheva, 75-year-old Boaron told Yisrael HaYom, "He was full of joy and mischief. I saw him on a few occasions when we were growing up."
"We played together when he visited our home with his aunt Didi. I saw him before my family moved to Israel. He was seven years old, and I was 13."
No Libyan-born Jews are believed to remain there, but in an interview with Arutz Sheva last January, Boaron said, "Qaddafi’s grandmother is my grandmother’s sister. His grandmother is my father’s grandmother. She was Jewish, became Muslim and married the town sheikh. She had children and he’s her grandson so he’s considered Jewish because his mother was born to a Jewish mother. So it means he’s Jewish.”
She poured ice water on the idea that he might want to move to the Jewish state. "Qaddafi is a miserable person now; I have no sympathy for him. He is evil, and deserves to end his life this way. He has killed many of his own people. He doesn't have a merciful heart like we Jews do," she told Yisrael HaYom.
Although the dictator would be unwelcome, to say the least, by her family, Boaron told Arutz Sheva, "There’s no place like Israel.”
She also related that Qaddafi “always loved the Jews and didn’t do anything bad to them."