Two interesting Gideon Levy pieces

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Settlements are fertile ground for Jewish terror
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent
02/11/2009

The parade of the self-righteous got underway Sunday night: Yaakov Teitel was described as a "foreign element," "wild thorn" and "rotten apple." Even if he acted alone, spoke and hallucinated in English, even if he was mentally disturbed, as his attorney claimed, it does not change the fact that Jack the Ripper from the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel - contrary to his predecessor in London - acted on ground that was fertile like no other.

an inappropriate stare, originally uploaded by michaelramallah.
two armed settlers from Karmi Zur "patrol" a road adjacent to a Palestinian grape field near Beit Ommar as an international volunteer assists in the harvest.

Yes, the settlements and especially the illegal outposts where Teitel lived and hid his weapons, along with the Kahanist settlement of Kfar Tapuah where he got his start - these are the places for such dangerous nuts. This is their refuge, where they can hide arms without being bothered and go on hate-filled killing sprees without being seen.

It is no coincidence that a terrorist or killer has never risen from within Peace Now, Gush Shalom or Yesh Gvul. However, with God's help, we have already seen two murderous terrorists from Shvut Rachel. Never has a leftist called for the death of someone who disagrees with him - and we must always remember this when we speak of left and right....

settler watches the harvest, originally uploaded by michaelramallah.
an armed settler watches Palestinians and international volunteers pick olives from a hilltop in a village outside of Nablus

for the complete article visit:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125294.html
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Swedish reporter in Israel: Not all criticism of you is anti-Semitism
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Correspondent

Donald Bostrom didn't know he needed this. With Moses, a gigantic bodyguard in a suit and tie watching over his Tel Aviv hotel room with an earpiece and a concealed gun; with a handful of demonstrators who greeted him in the wee hours of the morning at Ben-Gurion International Airport; and with the program for his visit to Israel, in which it is explained that during his trip to attend the Dimona Media Conference, he will be accompanied by two bodyguards, that the details of his visit will be "classified" and that he will wait in a "security room" before and after an interview to be conducted with him today by Yair Lapid.

Donald Bostrom didn't know he needed this. He arrived here Sunday, in an attempt to explain to Israelis what he meant in his scandalous article about alleged organ harvesting by the Israel Defense Forces - a brave step on his part and a no-less-brave step on the part of the organizers of the Dimona conference - who were already attacked by Minister Silvan Shalom, who decided to boycott the gathering and withdraw the money his ministry had pledged to the conference...

for the complete article visit:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125294.html

Posted by Michael at 2:54 PM