Ehud Olmert warns of ‘evil wind’ of extremism in Israel
Monday September 29 2008
A resurgent ultranationalist religious underground movement is threatening Israel’s democracy, the nation’s outgoing prime minister, Ehud Olmert, warned yesterday.
Olmert lashed out at the extreme right for the first time in his two-and-a-half-year premiership after a prominent Israeli critic of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank was violently attacked last week.
“A bad wind of extremism, hate, evil, violence and contempt for state authorities is blowing through certain sectors of the Israeli public and threatening Israeli democracy,”
said Olmert in his opening remarks to the weekly cabinet meeting.
Olmert said the police and the Shin Bet, Israel’s security service, were searching for members of the movement.
Olmert compared the attack on Prof Zeev Sternhell, a political scientist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to the 1995 assassination of the then prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, by a Jewish ultranationalist, and to a hand grenade attack that killed a Peace Now activist in 1983.
Sternhell, a vocal opponent of Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and a Holocaust survivor, was wounded when assailants planted a small pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home.
Police also found posters in Sternhell’s neighbourhood offering one million shekels (£159,000) to anyone who killed a member of Israel’s Peace Now movement, which also opposes Jewish settlements.
The attack on Sternhell follows numerous reports from Israeli human rights groups that the settlers’ use of violence against Palestinians and Israeli police and soldiers, who are charged with protecting the illegal colonists, is growing.
Yesterday police were investigating the latest alleged attack by settlers against a Palestinian.
The body of a 19-year-old Palestinian shepherd was found in a ravine, with 20 gunshots to his neck, in a remote area of the West Bank on the weekend.
Toni O’Loughlin in Jerusalem
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What’s happening.
First it’s reported that Bush makes what appears to be the first correct decision in eight years by vetoing any Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. He has had an abysmal record as a failed commander-in-chief. War on Afghanistan and Iraq without Congress approval and then more recently partial war on Iran and Pakistan – and these the ones we know of. Might George already have gotten old Osama and doesn’t want Israel upsetting his swansong “October Surprise” with an Iranian war, before he joins his drug buddy in Georgia in early 2009?!
Lately we had Olmert comparing a relatively minor violent attack on Palestinians as a pogrom!!! I wonder what he should have called the far far more serious normal terrorist behaviour by the imported tugs. Catastrophe?!!! Massacre?!!! Genocide?!!! Ethnic cleansing?!!! Nakba?!!! Holocaust?!!! So where was he when these foreign-grown imported terrorists were practising their dark arts up to now?!
Is it only when these terrorist attempt to murder other Jews that we get to hear what he truly believes.
“A bad wind of extremism, hate, evil, violence and contempt for state authorities is blowing through certain sectors of the Israeli public and threatening Israeli democracy.”
He lashed out at the ultranationalist religious underground zealot movement. He compared the attack on Prof Zeev Sternhell, a political scientist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to the 1995 assassination of the then PM, Yitzhak Rabin, by a Jewish ultranationalist, and to a hand grenade attack that killed a Peace Now activist in 1983.
That is the second time in as many weeks that Olmert has referred to the 9/11 event thirteen years ago – Rabin’s assassination. Sure it was only the murder of one man but Rabin was the former terrorist who turned dove and then wanted peace. He was one of the few given his bloody credentials who might have succeeded in pulling it off. Israel, since the very first one, has only respected leaders who had bloody hands – and there were few without!. Many former colonies had terrorist starts but only Israel has increased its terrorist profile. Single handedly it would keep a war crimes tribunal in business for twenty years. The US has sacrificed its UN reputation preventing Resolutions on Israeli transgressions.
Aside from all the Palestinians and Lebanese that would have lived, can you imagine what a difference the same basic peace would have produced if it had happened 13 years ago? At a local level, there are all those imported settler shits with instant Israeli citizenship that have stolen Arab lands and are now the biggest obstacle to a real peace. They have to be bought off and receive US and EU handouts to @uckoff back to whatever hole that they crawled out of along with their ‘men of god’.
At the global level, can you imagine? 13 years of peace in the world! Imagine no 9/11, no al-Qaeda, no Iraq war, no chads, no extraordinary rendition, no Guantanamo POWs, no Homeland Security, yes civil rights back in the US, dollar(?) still, Kayto, evolution. The world loving America? Well, I did say imagine.
Back to Olmert and his demise. Twice now mention of Rabin’s assassination. Is he seeking a martyr’s death rather than jail time for corruption. Sharon has a lock on the medical excuse. Two comatosed former PMs staying out of goal for corruption would be hard to swallow! Why else is he reminding the Zionist of the HUGE TERRORIST blot on their democratic ambitions that they NEVER talk about – well there is also USS Liberty, Lavon Affair, child sex abuse, corruption, Mafia, etc that are avoided. It has been downhill completely since that radical undemocratic regime change. So jail time or suicide-by-assassination? So when the welcome back Sharon, all is forgiven for peace.
Comment by ratcatcher2 — September 30, 2008 @ 2:36 pm