Ben-Eliezer: Far-right extremists will try to kill Sharon

[sharonbn]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/539633.html

Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned during the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday of the potential for an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by right-wing extremists.

Ben-Eliezer also presented to the cabinet a threatening letter that read: "Arab blood is flowing through your veins, and for this you must leave Israel and return to Iraq to defend Saddam Hussein. You are contemptible. You are a miserable Iraqi with Arab-Nazi blood flowing through your veins."

He said that even if the letters are fabrications, the phenomenon cannot be ignored.

"I am telling you: They will try to kill the prime minister. It starts with attacking soldiers. We are a country of law and we must examine this matter thoroughly," Ben-Eliezer said.

Sharon expressed his outrage at the letters and called for "practical steps" to be taken to counter the phenomenon.

[sharonbn]

yes, I know, its harmless "harassment" and the whole thing is blowing out of proportion by the left controlled media.

[Mediocrates]

So jail everyone if that makes you feel safe then. I'm sure there's some magical fascist solution for you. Outlaw freespeech, shutdown the press, dissolve the goverment and become the Kenya you've always wanted to be.

[danholo]

I don't think Israel will go as far as the US with internal "security" matters like monitoring one's library cards but we are talking about political assassination which has happened in Israel before. This is no laughing matter. Extremists will never learn that internal violence never solves anything. Instead it creates more internal strife. This is serious and very possible.

[Mediocrates]

I don't think we're the problem - how you manage your own political diversity it.

[sharonbn]

who's we?

[Mediocrates]

who's we?


I don't think Israel will go as far as the US with internal "security" matters like monitoring one's library cards.

[KettleWhistle]

yes, I know, its harmless "harassment" and the whole thing is blowing out of proportion by the left controlled media.

The whole thing IS being blown out of proportion. But Sharon ought to have a refferendum on the withdrawal instead of reshuffling the government to push his plan thru.

[utopia]

:rolleyes: Prime minister Sharon is planning to release bloody terrorists and the leftist media is talking about abbrogating the law?

What is that if not an explicit expression of lawlessness, anarchy and a sign of out and out injustice? It just shows that terror works.

If they couldn't care less about the significance of bloodiness of terrorists, then they should release Yigal Amir too, and we'll see where all this carelessness goes - they would shout that he has blood - a PM's blood on his hands.

And then I would ask, what about other innocents' blood? is there a difference between a killer of 21 people, a killer of a mother and her two sons and a killer of a prime-minister?

THERE ISN'T! So if they release someone who has blood on his hands, in a wholesale manner, they should apply it to all bloody killers.

[KettleWhistle]

I agree with pretty much all of that post, except for this:

a killer of a mother and her two sons and a killer of a prime-minister?

The circumstances are different. Igal Amir's shooting of Rabin was deserved and just. It was done under the same sentiments as those expressed in the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution. When government officials overreach their authority, it is citizen's civil duty to act in defense of themselves and their country. Rabin made a major political decision, affecting the whole country, and resulting in more than a thousand Jewish deaths. That decision was not only a result of illegal negociations, but also went against the wishes of the majorty (more than 2/3) of Israelis.

Such core decisions must be decided by a country-wide vote, not by a dozen people who got to high political offices by making gazillions of false promices.