Poll: One in five (Jewish) right wing supporters justify assassination

[tinnypriv]

Poll: One in five right wing supporters justify assassination
Ma'ariv, 13 September 2004

As 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=11036
http://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.

[malatesta1137]

1. No wonder

these people can't get on bus without knowing if they'll live or die. Can't they see that assassinations only fuel MORE assassinations?

[tinnypriv]

2. Assassination

Of Israeli leaders.

Triple the number of all Israeli's support liqudations of Palestinians.

[malatesta1137]

3. even worse

than I thought.

[geek tragedy]

4. Why haven't more "moderate" Jews called out extremists? SATIRE!

Satire, to those who missed it.

[bemildred]

5. Dang. Why don't they "renounce violence"? nt

[The Magistrate]

6. It Makes One Long, Mr. Priv

For the days when Mr. Sharon could be safely viewed as the acme of the right in Israel.

It is worth pointing out that the "dangerous policies" he is embarked on, and that these reptiles express murderous opposition to, are hardly a danger to the state of Israel. They are, in fact, the solidification of the most that Israeli power can reasonably secure, and impose on the people of Arab Palestine. They are, in short, the peace of a reasonable victor.

The only thing these policies are any danger to is the expansionist dream of Greater Israel. They are, if not a nail in its coffin, a new and serious stumbling block across its path. This murderous opposition to them makes clear past any obfuscation that this segment of the Israeli religious and nationalist right desires nothing but conquest pushed to the uttermost bounds, and differs only in its political circumstances from the likes of Hamas.

No responsible political personality or entity in Israel can, any longer, afford to pay any court to, or make any bargains with, or solicit any support from, these reptiles, however they might attempt to cloak themselves in sacred garb, or claim ownership of the Zionist idea. They must be read out of the congegation, as the Zealots were many centuries ago at the dawn of Rabbinic Judaism.

"If a man will not come to worship save he is clad in white, he may not come no matter what color his rainment."

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