The Israeli leader Menachem Begin called him unprincipled, avaricious, heartless and lacking in human feeling after he said that Germans living in a divided nation should feel sympathy for Palestinian self-determination.
在他发表了生活在一个分裂国家中的德国人应当对巴勒斯坦人的民族自决表示同情的言论后,以色列领导人贝京称他没有原则立场、贪得无厌、没心没肺,而且缺乏人类感情。