The Newest Graduate from the University of Duhhhh.......

EMAIL | Sunday, March 09, 2003 1:09 PM | Steven Plaut

[dennisw]

 

The "Oslo Era" is of course an epic of astronomical stupidity and
heart-breaking tragedy.  But it does have its bitterly ironic moments. 
These include when Arab terrorists end up killing or injuring the leftists
who imported them into Israeli lands.

    There have been quite a few such cases.   A leading Meretz activist
was among those murdered in the Haifa Matsa restaurant suicide bomb
attack. The son of a leftist journalist for Yediot Ahronot was among those
murdered on one of the Jerusalem bus bombings, as was the niece of one of
the worst anti-Jewish Far-Left fanatics on the faculty of Tel Aviv
University.  Two girls among those murdered on the Haifa bus this week had
been sent by their leftist parents to Jewish-Arab "peace camp" seminars at
the Far-Leftist Givat Haviva institute, a place so extremist and
pro-terror that it employs Ilan Pappe.

     None of these of course are reasons to rejoice, only to appreciate
that life contains elements of irony even in the worst circumstances.

     Which brings me to Amiram Goldin.  Goldin had long been a leader in a
touchy-feely encounter group in the Galilee devoted to promoting
Jewish-Arab understanding, friendship and coexistence.  Even today, he has
moments when he flashes back into posturing for such political
correctness.  But he has undergone a major metamorphosis. 

     Goldin's son Omri was murdered by the suicide bombing of the bus near
Safed, along with eight other civilians. The murderers who planted the
suicide bomber on the bus were the Galilee cousins of Mohammed Bakhri, the
producer of the Goebbels film "Jenin Jenin".   The murderers were all
Israeli citizens.  Another Bakhri cousin was on the bus at the time but
was warned about what was about to take place.   She got off the bus with
her girlfriend before the explosion, refusing to warn the driver or the
other passengers.  She was recently expelled for her role in the mass
murder from a college in Safed, giving the Israeli Left yet another great
cause and proof of Jewish anti-Arab "racism".

    The Bakhris were rounded up and put on trial, and all the while their
cousin promoted his nazi propaganda film - a tissue of lies about the
battle of Jenin that has been awarded a Leftist Oscar, probably better to
be called a Lemming.  Goldin was present at the trial of the murderers of
his son. The TV news only gave the story a few lines.  Barely newsworthy
in post-survivalist Israel.

     Goldin, the post-murder Goldin, writes about his family's suffering,
about the trial and those in attendance in a guest Op-Ed in Haaretz Mar 9.
The guilty murderers never expressed any remorse, but were proud of their
crime.  

     Goldin had a rude awakening at the trial.  He had been convinced that
the vast majority of Galilee Arabs were decent people, anti-murder,
anti-violence, tolerant, and loyal to their country.  At the trial he
realized how wrong he had been.

    The courtroom was jammed with friends and kin and townsfolk of the
murderers.  Not a one approached the three fathers whose children had been
murdered to offer a word of comfort.  To the contrary, it was clear
throughout the trial how utterly proud and overjoyed the Arabs in the
courtroom were at the murders, how thoroughly they identified with those
committing atrocities against Jewish children.  They were in the courtroom
as cheerleaders for the indicted murderers. 

     And so yet another leftist has graduated the hard way from the
University of Duh.....
     
    

[Mister Baredog]

And so yet another leftist has graduated the hard way from the University of Duh.....

>The same left that is working soooo veeeery hard to protect Saddam and his death squads today.

[nwrep]

And so yet another leftist has graduated the hard way from the University of Duh.....

The same left that is working soooo veeeery hard to protect Saddam and his death squads today.

....and also at Berkeley, NYU, Harvard, U of Mich, among others..