[Dean's World] Dean: Terrorist Apologism

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Terrorist Apologism
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1164933964.shtml


   [1]Meryl Yourish notes, quite correctly, that I did not repudiate some
   obscure remarks by Dean's World commenters that have appeared here
   from time to time over the years. Which is quite true. But she then
   suggests that I was "ignoring" such things. Hahahaha. Riiiiight. [Eyes
   roll]. Leave it to Meryl Yourish to try to worm out of her shameful
   Kahanist apologism with a lame [2]tu quoque response.

   Truth: I didn't even remember those obscure remarks by my commenters,
   but if if a civil, decent person were to have asked I would have said,
   "I assume those commenters didn't know any better. I certainly didn't
   at the time. Now that I do know better, however, it's a different
   story."

   For reference, here once again is the terrorist whom Meryl Yourish and
   others proudly allows to speak for the people of Israel:

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   [3]Lettre ouverte au monde entier
   Uploaded by [4]Tazda

   I considered linking this video on Dean's World with a minor hat-tip,
   on the order of "Hey, this is pretty cool" when I first spotted it.
   But a friend asked if I knew all I should about the terrorist Kahane.

   "Terrorist? No way!" Then I researched, and I realized: "Oh sh*t. Yes
   he was." In fact, he was convicted more than once of terrorist
   activities by the United States government. When he learned that he
   was almost certainly going to be indicted again for his ongoing
   terrorist activities, he finally fled to Israel--where he continued
   his terrorist activities with pride.

   I initially posted a very mild, non-confrontational article about it.
   [5]Here it is in its entirety. Please read what I wrote carefully and
   tell me where there was a single ad hominem attack on anyone besides
   the terrorist thug Meir Kahane and his violent movement.

   Later in the day, I sent an even more polite, and utterly
   non-confrontational, email to Meryl Yourish about it, since it had
   appeared on her site. I'll happily re-post that email in public by the
   way. The whole exchange, every word of it. There was nothing in the
   least bit nasty about it.

   The whole exchange from my perspective was, in essence: "Are you sure
   you want to be associating yourself with this guy? He was not a good
   guy."

   Although I did not say so at the time, I don't think it right that
   anyone should let an avowed theocrat, an avowed terrorist, and a thug
   speak for the people of Israel, with little more than a weak "I don't
   agree with everything BUT..." description of the man.

   Let us review:

   [6]Kahanists approve of stabbing homosexuals for being homosexuals and
   [7]still hate homosexuals. And [8]applaud the death of innocents as
   "holy".

   Respected pro-Israel Jewish scholars [9]recognize Kahanism as
   quasi-fascist and violent criminal.

   Kahane wanted to [10]make it a crime punishable by law for a
   non-Jewish man to have sex with a Jewish woman

   The [11]Anti-Defamation League calls Kahanism terrorism.

   So does the [12]US State Department.

   So does the [13]Israeli government, especially after the [14]Kahanist
   murder of Yitzhak Rabin.

   The [15]Council on Foreign Relations calls Kahanism terrorism.

   The [16]Center for Defense Information calls Kahanism terrorism.

   Even [17]David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine declares Kahanism
   terrorism.

   Note, please, that aside from the US State Department, the Center for
   Defense Intelligence, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York
   Review of Books, and the Washington Times, I have not named a single
   source that is not a Jewish source.

   Ehud Sprinzak's [18]expose of Kahanism remains the single best source
   I have found so far on Kahane and his thug followers. These people
   terrorized not just Arabs or Muslims but also Americans. Christians
   and even Jews.

   For the record: I hereby officially declare that I utterly repudiate
   Kahanism. I don't believe that any prior positive comments about
   Kahane that appeared from Dean's World commenters were made with full
   understanding of his record, and they certainly were not made with my
   full understanding. But now that I am fully aware (and the rest of us
   are too), I utterly repudiate them. Are you pro-terrorist or
   anti-terrorist? If you're pro-terrorist then I want nothing to do with
   you.

   Will Meryl Yourish make make such an unequivocal statement? Just
   curious.

   I get a lot of people who tell me I should let this go. They even tell
   me that I should stop because I'm being "emotional." You know what? I
   am emotional: I f*cking hate terrorists. I don't want to reason with
   them or try to rationalize their behavior. I want the military and law
   enforcement authorities of free democracies to hunt them down and kill
   them, or lock them in a dungeon and throw away the key.

   Just so you know where I stand.

   I still have two questions I am waiting to have answered by Meryl
   Yourish and her apologists:

   1) Do you unequivocally condemn terrorism or do you not?

   2) Do you think it's okay for a Jew to murder Christians, Muslims, and
   even Jews--Americans as well as Arabs--if it's done in the name of
   Israel?

   I await unequivocal answers to these questions which do not involve
   attacks upon my person, my sex, my motives, my friends, my faith, or
   my family. Just answer the questions.

   I for one have no more olive branches to offer to terrorist
   apologists. I just want to know who the enemies of terrorism are.

References

   1. http://www.yourish.com/2006/11/27/2355
   2. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html
   3. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xetn4_lettre-ouverte-au-monde-entier
   4. http://www.dailymotion.com/Tazda
   5. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1163897303.shtml
   6. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3326400,00.html
   7. http://kahane.blogspot.com/2006/10/resistance-to-rescheduled-homosexual.html
   8. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3326400,00.html
   9. http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/kach_and_kahane.html
  10. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/6011
  11. http://www.adl.org/extremism/jdl_chron.asp
  12. http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/65275.htm
  13. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031010-112733-8086r.htm
  14. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/rabinass.html
  15. http://www.cfr.org/publication/9178/
  16. http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/kach.cfm
  17. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19068
  18. http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/kach_and_kahane.html