Hanegbi Adds Fuel: "Someone Is Planning An Assassination"

"There are already people who have made the decision that if/when the time comes, they will try to kill a minister, a Prime Minister, an army officer or a policeman." So said Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi last night.

The incitement campaign against the right-wing continues. Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi, a sometimes leader himself of right-wing causes in the recent and more distant past, said last night that in his opinion, "there are already people who have made the decision that if/when the time comes, they will try to kill a minister, a Prime Minister, an army officer or a policeman."

HaNegbi thus added fuel to the fire of anti-right-wing statements lit by GSS chief Avi Dichter on Sunday. Dichter said at the time, without documenting his statements and drawing objections from army and police elements, that incitement and danger in the right-wing is increasing.

Army Radio quoted this morning "security elements" saying there is "no information in the Shabak (GSS) or the police regarding intentions to harm the Prime Minister or any other senior personality."

HaNegbi was a student leader of the opposition to the withdrawal from Sinai in 1982, heading a group that refused, for three weeks, to descend from a tall monument in the city of Yamit unless the withdrawal was called off.

Appearing on television's Channel Two last night, HaNegbi explained that what Dichter was essentially saying was that the "situation in which we currently find ourselves is one of 'difficult escalation' and that we should not take it lightly."

HaNegbi elaborated this morning that his warnings of a potential assassin were not referring to a particular public, but to a "lone individual sitting at home, planning to 'save Israel' by carrying out this act." HaNegbi emphasized once again that he is "certain" that such an individual or small group exists.

Israel's media have concentrated very heavily over the past two days on the perceived "dangers" from the right-wing, refusing to let the subject die down. The Ynet news internet site yesterday featured a list of "right-wing extremists," including Baruch Marzel, the Yesha Rabbis Council, Women in Green, the "hilltop youth," and others.

MK Inbal Gavrieli (Likud) appeared to repeat and sum up much of what was heard and read in the media on this topic when she said in the Knesset yesterday, "The Attorney-General, and the regime in general, must not ignore these grave statements by Rabbi Nebenzahl. To my sorrow, we see that we did not learn our lesson from the period of violence that preceded the murder of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. At the same time, it must be made clear to the left-wing that they must not politically attack the settlers, as this is also incitement and provocation that can end up just as bitterly."

"The Ynet news internet site yesterday featured a list of "right-wing extremists,"...the Yesha Rabbis Council, Women in Green, the "hilltop youth," and others."

Well, geeeeeeeeeez! These are all organizations I read all the time and happen to like. What's that make me in the eyes of Ynet news? An "extremist"?

Oh, well!

Yeah, this is an organized slander campaign to countermand the effects the Yesha Council is having in the intellectual and political arena, just like Clinton/Reno were demonizing the American militias pre-Millenium (which failed misrably). No doubt. The big jump in mail and commentary on this belies that, especially through resources outside of Free Republic.

Morally and spiritually, that puts us ... right behind THE SETTLERS.

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Some good news, though:

Shinui Eating Each Other

Shinui leader Yosef (Tommy) Lapid asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday to fire National Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky after Channel One aired a tape of him asking a private investigator working for Israel Electric to frame his political rival in Shinui, Interior Minister Avraham Poraz.

Sharon agreed to Lapid's request to fire Paritzky on Sunday and allow the party to present a candidate to replace him. At press time, Paritzky had not yet decided whether to resign. Lapid told Paritzky he must quit the government and the Knesset, because there is no chance that his colleagues would agree to continue working with him.

"This is an act that borders on criminal and it is intolerable in every way," Lapid told Paritzky. "I am shocked by this embarrassing episode, which casts a shadow on Shinui as the party of clean governance. I stand by my friend Poraz and I feel the difficult yoke that he feels on the injustice done to him. This is the way of Shinui."

The report sent shockwaves through the party that ran on a banner of clean politics. Shinui leader Yosef (Tommy) Lapid called an emergency meeting of the Shinui faction for Thursday morning at the party's Tel Aviv headquarters in order to decide how the party will proceed.

According to the report, ahead of the party's primaries two years ago, the investigator approached Paritzky, who advised him on where to search for incriminating evidence against Poraz. At the time, Israel Electric was trying to prevent Poraz, who was then head of the Knesset Economics Committee, from passing a law to end the practice of giving Israel Electric workers free electricity.

"I want to trap him and get rid of him," Paritzky told the investigator. "We have to tailor something. We have to fabricate charges against him. The elections are coming up and we have a battle worse than [Shas rivals] Aryeh Deri and Eli Yishai

Following orders from Lapid, Paritzky went on Channel One following the report to apologized to Poraz. He blamed the episode on being a political neophyte at the time and said he does not believe he did anything illegal.

"If I broke the law, people can try to bring charges against me and I will cooperate with the authorities," Paritzky said. "Israel Electric wanted to screw Poraz and I fell for it. I am sorry the investigator violated my privacy by releasing the tape. This story pains me because I have good relations with Avraham now."

Poraz issued a statement saying that he is shocked and pained that a member of his party would behave in such a manner.

"I believe that even political competition must be held fairly and in a good atmosphere," Poraz said. "Throughout my political career, I have always acted fairly, to my friends and opponents alike. Any attempt to frame me is hopeless libel."

Several Shinui MKs called upon Paritizky to resign. Shinui faction chair Reshef Cheyne said Paritzky is not worthy of being a member of Shinui, and MK or a minister. He called on him to quit all three positions in order to spare himself and the party the shame of distancing him.

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A Shas spokesman said he was shocked at Shinui's hypocrisy and he is sure the episode is merely the tip of the iceberg of illegal activity in the party. He said he feels bad for Shinui voters who were misled into a party whose leaders stab each other in the back and hire prosecutors to make sure the knife penetrated. He said he is sure the voters will not repeat their mistake.

Yahad leader Yossi Beilin said that Paritzky's resignation would not remove the stain from Shinui. Beilin said the party has been proven to be "the biggest fraud in Israeli politics" after not keeping any of the promises in its platform. He said the party's promises of proper governance are a cruel joke and that the scandal was "yet another reason that the elections should be moved up."

Labor faction chair Dalia Itzik said the scandal proves that there is a huge gap between Shinui's promises of clean politics and its shameful management when it hit the top.

An Israel Electric spokesman said the company was shocked by the report.

Sharon has betrayed the people who voted for him, and he has betrayed the members of his own party who voted against "unilateral disengagement" in the referendum.

Somebody is yanking his chain. The question is WHO?

"Ultra right-wing extremists" (translation: normal-thinking people) have nothing to gain by assassinating Sharon WHOM THEY ELECTED, and everything to lose.

I'm not a conspiracy nut, but I see the same thing happening right here in the U.S. in which Leftists are free to say "George Bush is worse than Hitler", "Condoleeza Rice is a N*****", "Somebody should shoot Rumsfeld" and that's their "Free speech" but anyone dares to publicly declare "Abortion is the Holocaust of an entire generation" or "The Bible says that Homosexuality is a sin" that's not "Free speech" but "Hate speech."

Did I ever mention that out of all the hate e-mail which I get on a regular basis through my website, from assorted and sundry neo-nazis, leftists, and Palestinians, the only death threat that I ever received was from an Israeli Shinui member?

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