You Can't Say That ...

in Israel.

In a brief “Note to Readers” published Tuesday on the front page of The Jerusalem Post, the newspaper announced that it had parted ways with a columnist who wrote last week on his blog that terrorist attacks on Israelis were “justified” because Palestinians living under Israeli occupation since 1967 “have a right to resist.”

The note from the English-language daily read in full: “Due to a professional disagreement with Larry Derfner connected to his personal blog, he will no longer be working at The Jerusalem Post.”

According to Mr. Derfner, he was fired by the newspaper even after he had published a lengthy apology on his personal Web site for what he described as a poorly worded attempt to shock Israelis into considering the possibility that the continued occupation of Palestinian land seized by Israel provokes terror attacks.
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Mr. Derfner’s reference in his post to the prominent role in Israeli history played by members of the Irgun, a militant group that helped to drive Britain from the region in the 1940s, is a reminder that the people branded terrorists by their enemies are often celebrated as resistance fighters by their supporters.

As The Lede reported in 2009, during Israel’s offensive in Gaza that year a British parliamentarian named Gerald Kaufman, who was close to some of Israel’s founders, pointed out that Tzipi Livni, the leader of Kadima, Israel’s main opposition party, was the daughter of two members of what he called “the terrorist Irgun Tzvai Leumi.”

It will be interesting to see, as the roosters start coming home crowing, if America continues to emulate her Middle East ally, as we have in our torture policies, our tightened up (but ineffective) security policies, our First Amendment? Another attack on our home soil, who knows what the fearful will push?

Already our media prefers to promote fluff, rather than asking the hard but necessary questions. And questioning Israel is clearly off the table. So unless the Pali's roll over and play dead, as seems to be Israel's masterplan, I suspect we'll see more of that fight, which really does belong over there, brought home here.

Nothing like a little fear to strike the hearts of Americans, and make them give up on all the principles and practices that got us here thus far. Me? I hope we continue to resist -- and clearly outline the differences between Israel and the United States. Granted, those distinctions are becoming smaller and smaller as more presidential administrations pass through ... "captured" by the process, by the dollars, by the politics of it all, you might say.


Read the Whole Thing. (Don't be Afraid.)

They say that what you mock...
Will surely overtake you.
So you become a monster,
so the monster will not break you.