29 August '11
And he remains clueless as to what he said that was wrong, instead lashing out at his seeming oppressors:
I got fired by The Jerusalem Post today. The paper got hundreds of notices of cancellations of subscription after my blog post (“The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror”) of Sunday last week; the reason being given for my firing, though, is the substance of the essay, despite the apology I published later. A page-one notice to this effect will be published in the Post tomorrow.
My apology was to have run in the Post yesterday, but a logistical mix-up prevented it. Today the paper ran a column by Isi Liebler titled “Justifying murder – an abomination,” which, like nearly all of the right-wing websites attacking my original essay (I took it down from my blog upon publishing the apology), it gives extremely short shrift to all the things I wrote that show my intent was not to encourage terror, but the opposite.
As I noted when he apologized, no one is saying that he supports or encourages terror. What he was doing, explicitly, was justifying it. And from what he has written, it seems that he truly believes that attacking civilians is a "right" even if he personally believes it is wrong.
That is what is offensive. His inability to realize that would be comical if it wasn't so sad.
Instead, he goes into martyr mode:
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I am rather mixed in my feelings about Larry, on the one hand he did state something pretty horrendous in supporting the Palestinian murder of Israelis and thus brought about his well deserved sacking. Look, a newspaper has to appeal to it's readers and advertisers and Derfner's remarks made himself a net loss. On the others hand he was expressing a not uncommon political opinion among most Israeli Leftists, including some well known and respected journalists, as well as many members of the Israeli Labor and Kadima parties and they aren't being fired.
ReplyDeleteLarry Derfner has skated close to this edge many times before but this time he went too far.
Derfner represents many of his political persuasion. They become increasing extreme in their anti-Israel rhetoric when they find little resistance. They do so to the point where they can express such abhorrent, but closely held views, that murder, even genocide, is excusable if the cause they support is challenged or confronted.
ReplyDeleteSo it was with Communism and Marxism. The opposition to their cause could be killed with moral justification.