Poll: One in five right wing supporters justify assassination
Ma'ariv, 13 September 2004As last means resort to stop “dangerous policies”
A poll conducted by Haifa University’s political science department shows that almost a fifth (18.5%) of those supporting nationalist right wing policies would be willing to condone political assassination “if there was no other means to derail a dangerous policy”. Nearly 15% would actually be willing to contemplate such a step if they were convinced it was the only way to prevent a disaster that could seriously jeopardize the existence of the state.
An additional quarter justify harassing and intimidating politicians in order to coerce them into not supporting “dangerous policies that could lead to a disaster”, but would not justify physical violence.
These figures show a seven percent increase in the number of people willing to sanction political violence in order to achieve their aims.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm...articleID=11036http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/782/756.html (Hebrew, also notes that 4% of Israel's "Jewish citizens" believe Rabin's killer should be pardoned)*
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Comment: This should be perhaps placed in the context of
this sort of thing (scroll down, image shows the head of the Disengagement Authority, Yonatan Basi, with the words "We will not forgive" in red).
Or this,
this (scroll down, Sharon being called "The Dictator", and "quoted" as saying "I don't care about any of you").
Note that Kach was also out in force at this demonstration, with their "Buy From Jews Only" T-Shirts etc. The familiar facist tendancies.
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* Assuming they believe that person to be Yigal Amir, as some don't - just check out the "book stall" that was in Zion Square during the demonstration - the idiots who run that have been condemned many times in Ma'ariv, not that anybody cares, or even notices.