Posted on 08/29/2011 4:49:55 PM PDT by conservativeforpalin
The Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, has fired senior reporter, Larry Derfner for penning a blog post, justifying terrorist attacks against Israelis. He wrote a post titled “The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror,” in which he justified a recent terrorist attack against Israel.
Good riddance to him. Palestinian terrorist attacks are not justifiable.
JTA reported: The Jerusalem Post fired senior reporter Larry Derfner after he penned a controversial blog post justifying terrorist attacks against Israelis.
The post, titled “The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror,” appeared on a personal blog Derfner shares, Israel Reconsidered (Israelleft.com). It stoked a firestorm of controversy in Israel for appearing to justify the recent terrorist attack near Eilat, which left eight Israelis dead. It was later deleted from the blog.
“Whoever the Palestinians were who killed the eight Israelis near Eilat last week, however vile the ideology was, they were justified to attack,” Derfner wrote, according to text from the blog cited Sunday by Jerusalem Post columnist Isi Liebler.
“But while I think the Palestinians have the right to use terrorism against us, I don’t want them to use it, I don’t want to see Israelis killed, and as an Israeli, I would do whatever was necessary to stop a Palestinian, oppressed or not, from killing one of my countrymen,” Derfner wrote in his original post. “What’s needed very badly, however, is for Israelis to realize that the occupation is hurting the Palestinians terribly, that it’s driving them to try to kill us, that we are compelling them to engage in terrorism, that the blood of Israeli victims is ultimately on our hands, and that it’s up to us to stop provoking our own people’s murder by ending the occupation.”
On Friday, Derfner apologized for the post, saying he meant that the Israeli occupation provokes Palestinian terrorism, not that it justifies it.
“Writing that the killing of Israelis was justified and a matter of right took a vile image and attached words of seeming approval to it. This, I’m afraid, produced an ‘obscene’ effect, as one critic wrote. I don’t want to write obscenity about Israel. I didn’t mean to, and I deeply regret it,” Derfner wrote. “I meant, instead, to shock Israelis and friends of Israel into seeing how badly we’re hurting the Palestinians by denying them independence: It’s so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”
Apparently, that apology was insufficient. On Monday, he posted a note saying the Jerusalem Post had fired him after receiving hundreds of subscription cancellations.
The NYT is hemorrhaging $ and probably unable to hire the guy, much as they’d dearly love to. Soros is probably putting out feelers, though. They are peas in the same vile pod, and Soros has the cash while this guy has the toxic message and the bona fides to prop it up. A match made...well, not in heaven, if you get my drift.
He ha s bright future in the US Jewish community.
They too hate Israel.
Mark
About Larry Derfner Born 1951 in New York, grew up in Los Angeles, immigrated to Israel 1985, live in Modi'in with wife Philippa and sons Alon and Gilad. Write "Rattling the Cage" column for The Jerusalem Post, blog with Richard Silverstein at "Israel Reconsidered," a left-wing Zionist debate
Good. What caliber did they use?
Thanks conservativeforpalin.
About damn time.
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‘bout time. That guy has been a blight for years
“Derfner wrote in his original post. “What’s needed very badly, however, is for Israelis to realize that the occupation is hurting the Palestinians terribly, that it’s driving them to try to kill us, that we are compelling them to engage in terrorism, that the blood of Israeli victims is ultimately on our hands, and that it’s up to us to stop provoking our own people’s murder by ending the occupation.”
Damn - Israel’s got this jerk...and we’ve got Ron Paul.
Maybe they’re pen pals.
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