Elder - Israeli leftist says killing Israeli Jews is a "right"

Elder of Ziyon
25 August '11





(While Larry Derfner wrote this in "Israel Reconsidered" , and not for his regular column with the Jerusalem Post, one would think there are criteria for staff writer's public statements, that have red lines. Yet the JPost employs an Op-Ed columnist who explicitly justifies murdering Israelis, only days after the horrific attack near Eilat, and with rockets yet being launched against any citizen unfortunate enough to be in harm's way. If he had justified future random attacks and murder of Arab citizens, or non-citizens, as a response to attacks on Jewish residents would the JPost continue to feature such a writer? If you find this disturbing and wish to contact the JPost, the contact information is as follows. Main #(02) 531-5666 Fax (02) 538-9527 For those who wish to contact Customer Service (03)761-9056 *2421     Click here for JPost Feedback page:    Yosef)


The Left has come to this: justifying terrorism against Israelis in the name of human rights.

From the Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner, in a blog called Israel Reconsidered:

I think a lot of people who realize that the occupation is wrong also realize that the Palestinians have the right to resist it – to use violence against Israelis, even to kill Israelis, especially when Israel is showing zero willingness to end the occupation, which has been the case since the Netanyahu government took over (among other times in the past).

But people don’t want to say this, especially right after a terror attack like this last one that killed eight Israelis near Eilat. And there are lots of good reasons for this reticence, such as: You don’t want to further upset your own countrymen when they are grieving, you don’t want to say or write anything that could be picked up by Israel’s enemies and used as justification for killing more of us. (These are good reasons; fear of being called a traitor, for instance, is a bad reason.)

But I think it’s time to overcome this reticence, even at the cost of enflaming the already enflamed sensitivities of the Israeli public, because this unwillingness to say outright that Palestinians have the right to fight the occupation, especially now, inadvertently helps keep the occupation going.

... Whoever the Palestinians were who killed the eight Israelis near Eilat last week, however vile their ideology was, they were justified to attack. They had the same right to fight for their freedom as any other unfree nation in history ever had. And just like every harsh, unjust government in history bears the blame for the deaths of its own people at the hands of rebels, so Israel, which rules the Palestinians harshly and unjustly, is to blame for those eight Israeli deaths – as well as for every other Israeli death that occurred when this country was offering the Palestinians no other way to freedom.

Writing this is not treason. It is an attempt at patriotism.

Derfner, who no doubt would describe himself as liberal, cannot find a single ethical problem with Palestinian Arab terror. Like Mahmoud Abbas and every other Palestinian Arab leader, he merely says:

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