This is a report from Israel's largest media company, Yedioth Achronoth. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for posting it.
As Sullivan points out, most Israelis cannot stand the settlers but, thanks to Israel's parliamentary system and right-wing politicians like Binyamin Netanyahu, who suck up to them, they are running the country today. And only the left (and it's not large) is fighting them.
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Both figures are worthy of disdain, but while Israel views them as such, the Palestinians [officially] revere Mughrabi.
Olei Hagardom (Hebrew: "Those hanged in the gallows", עולי הגרדום) refers to members of the pre-state Jewish underground who were tried in British Mandate courts and sentenced to death by hanging, most of them in Acre prison. There were 12 Olei Hagardom. [1]
Many streets in Israel are named after Olei Hagardom or those who were executed. The Ramat Aviv neighbourhood in Tel Aviv and the Armon Hanatziv neighbourhood in Jerusalem have streets bearing the name Olei Hagardom or the names of individual fighters.[1] In Ramat Gan, there is an official square and statue honoring Dov Gruner and Olei Hagardom. An official commemoration ceremony takes place on Yom Hazikaron at the memorial in Rishon LeZion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olei_Hagardom
Surely there are nicer ways to identify roads and schools...'Sunshine Ave.' or 'Rosa Parks High School' have much better rings to them, if you ask me.
Besides, the disturbed Mughrabi is not officially commemorated by the Palestinians any more than Goldstein is commemorated by the Israeli State.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/03/the-new-israel-watch.html
There is nothing new. You see the same attitude in quotes and writings of Begin, Dayan, Ben Gurion, etc. going back 70 to 100 years. Mr Sullivan is simply seeing it for the first time. And having seen it and spoken up about it, he was labelled an antisemite by Martin Peretz.
"As I've noted in this space before, the racist anti-Arab rants by New Republic editor in chief/owner Martin Peretz have undermined not only his magazine's reputation for liberalism but also the term "pro-Israel" itself. ...This tendency has finally spilled into polite discussion now that the magazine has turned on one of its own: former editor, and now Atlantic Monthly blogger, Andrew Sullivan. "
http://live.thenation.com/doc/20100315/alterman
thanks MJ once again!!!
Hamas has a whole network dedicated to it.
Before anyone accuses me, none of it makes this video less despicable that what it is but it atests to the hypocrisy of most readers of this site.
Menachem Begin – The Last Commander in Chief (1913-1992); first Likud Prime Minister of Israel.
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer - (1913-1970) – co-founder, Committee for the Rescue of European Jewry and later on the Committee for National Liberation. Elected to the Knesset as a Herut member and served as Deputy Speaker.
Yitzhak Shamir, joined the Irgun in 1937; joined the Stern faction in 1940; commander of the Lehi after Stern's assassination. 7th PM of Israel.
Shall we keep naming prominent Israelis who were classified terrorists?
Now, in the interests of giving both sides a voice, are you going to write about this incident, when the PA named a square in Ramallah after Dalal Mughrabi, the perpetrator of the worst terror attack in Israeli history? Remember, this is the PA doing it, not a group of settlers.
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1715
1. The longest running occupation of another country's soil?
2. The most active UN sanctions against it?
3. The largest clandestine nuclear arsenal in the middle east?
It ain't Syria
2. Not sure, why don't you read this and find out: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/sanctions/un-sanctions-on-specific-countries.html
3. No one knows how big any Middle Eastern countries nuclear arsenal is, so I'm afraid I can't answer your question.
Now, would you like to respond to the topic of my post?
Cold blooded murder = Naming of a square in Ramallah
If you want to start revisionist history, why dont we start with the beginning of the conflict. You know, when proto-Israelies blew up the King's Hotel in Jeruselum, murdering British soldiers. Then we can work our way up to the most recent shelling of UN compounds in Gaza.
The worst thing is that they all knew the words, so some sicko actually wrote the words of this ditty, and they sing it regularly.