Columnist Who Justified Terrorism Fired from Jerusalem Post

INN ^ | 8/30/11 | Elad Benari

[Nachum]

Columnist Larry Derfner fired from Jerusalem Post after writing in his blog that "the Palestinians have the right to use terrorism."

The Jerusalem Post has fired leftist columnist Larry Derfner after he published a commentary piece in which he justified Arab terrorism against Israelis and particularly the recent multiple terror attacks near Eilat.

In a column dated August 21 which he published on his blog and which was entitled “The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror,” Derfner wrote:

“[T]he Palestinians, like every nation living under hostile rule, have the right to fight back, that their terrorism, especially in the face of a rejectionist Israeli government, is justified... the Palestinians have the right to use terrorism against us....What’s needed very badly, ...is for Israelis to realize that ...we are compelling them (the Palestinians) 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.... [T]he Palestinians ... who killed the eight Israelis near Eilat last week, ... were justified to attack.... Israel, which rules the Palestinians harshly and unjustly, is to blame for those eight Israeli deaths – as well as for every other Israeli death that occurred when this country was offering the Palestinians no other way to freedom.”

[Nachum]

Arutz Sheva attempted to contact Derfner on Tuesday to get his response, but upon picking up the telephone he said: “Arutz Sheva? We have nothing to talk about,” and hung up.

[americanophile]

They have the ability to use terrorism. Let’s not confuse it with a right, which is a moral/legal justification. Their victims have a greater right to exist after all.

[dfwgator]

The traitor should be in prison.

[mojito]

Derfner fired!

Couldn't happen to a nicer gent.

He was as loopy a leftist as Israeli media gets. It seems he finally revealed a little too much of his true feelings.

So long Larry, don't let the door hit ya....

[rawhide]

Is it true Al Jazeera has offered him a job?

[Jack Hydrazine]

“...rejectionist Israeli government,...”

From his perspective it is wrong for the Israeli people and its government to reject being murdered and having genocide committed upon them. Take this self-hating Jew and toss him to the Palie wolves and see the reality of who they really are.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I don't know but he was trying to get a job at Al Jazeera.

I am reading a leftist site (Dimi Reider was the poster) they are using an argument of moral equivalence from a "extreme right wing" at the same paper when this was written:
" Perhaps Brievik’s inexcusable act of vicious terror should serve not only as a warning that there may be more elements on the extreme Right willing to use violence to further their goals, but also as an opportunity to seriously reevaluate policies for immigrant integration in Norway and elsewhere."

It would seem like an example of leftest only reading each others papers and calling each other right wing.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Does this mean we can fire Ron Paul? He also thinks it’s justified.

[Scotsman will be Free]

The good news is that leftist cockroach used to live in the U.S. and now he’s Israel’s problem.