Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
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Leftist prof on bombing of his home: This is the start of democracy's 
decay
By Shahar Ilan and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz 
Service
Professor Ze'ev Sternhell, the victim of a pipe bomb attack at his home 
on Thursday, spoke out against the incident, saying that "if this act was 
not committed by a deranged person but by someone who represents a 
political view, then this is the beginning of the disintegration of 
democracy."
Sternhell, a Haaretz columnist and left wing activist, was lightly hurt 
in the bombing. He was being treated at Jerusalem's Shaarei Tzedek 
hospital.
From his hospital bed, Sternhell said that "the very occurrence of the 
incident goes to illustrate the fragility of Israeli democracy, and the 
urgent need to defend it with determination and resolve."
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"On the personal level," he went on to say, "if the intent was to 
terrorize, it has to be very clear that I am not easily intimidated; but 
the perpetrators tried to hurt not only me, but each and every one of my 
family members who could have opened the door, and for that there is no 
absolution and no forgiveness."
Police suspect Jewish extremists of having carried out the pipe bomb 
attack earlier in the day. Sternhell walked out of his home in a quiet 
Jerusalem neighborhood shortly after midnight to shut a courtyard gate 
when the bomb went off, lightly wounding him in one of his legs, 
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
"We believe the background is ideological," police spokesman Micky 
Rosenfeld said.
Sternhell, an internationally renowned expert on the history of fascism, 
was awarded the country's highest honor, the Israel Prize, earlier this 
year. The award drew fire from West Bank settlers and their supporters, 
who unsuccessfully petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to try to block it.
Meanwhile Thursday, Kadima leader and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni 
condemned the attack saying that the incident was "intolerable, and 
cannot be glossed over."
At a ceremony marking the Rosh Hashanah holiday at the Foreign Ministry, 
Livni went on to say that "the state of Israel is a lawful state, and 
moreover, it is populated by a society with values. It is the 
responsibility of the government and the Israeli society to renounce such 
phenomena as soon as the rear their heads."
Earlier Thursday, Jerusalem police said they found fliers offering more 
than NIS 1 million to anyone who kills members of left-wing human rights 
organization Peace Now at Sternhell's home following the blast.
Investigators said a number of such pamphlets were found outside the home 
and in adjacent streets.
In the wake of the attack and the discovery of the fliers, police have 
beefed up security around the home of Peace Now secretary-general Yariv 
Oppenheimer.
Senior political figures also expressed outrage at the news of the attack 
on Sternhell, which has touched a nerve given the country's sensitive 
history of politically-oriented violence.
"We are returning to the dark spectacle of pipe bombs that are aimed at 
people, in this case against a very gifted person who never shies away 
from expressing his opinion," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
"We won't let any elements, from any dark corner of Israeli society, to 
harass people who let their clear, lucid, unique voices like that of 
Ze'ev Sternhell be heard," Barak said.
"The attack on Professor Sternhell is a cowardly, terrorist act of those 
with no sense of justice," the chairman of the Knesset's internal affairs 
committee, Labor MK Ophir Pines-Paz, said.
"I call on the police and the Shin Bet security service to make every 
effort to locate the perpetrators quickly and to make sure that they be 
put under lock and key for many years."
"They better not talk to us about a few bad weeds," Meretz chairman Haim 
Oron said. "These phenomena spring up on the right-wing [of the political 
spectrum]."
"This thuggish and dangerous act is the result of the continuing see-no-
evil approach toward the vicious violence against soldiers and police 
officers and anyone else who doesn't agree with the brutish section of 
the extreme right wing," Oron said.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an activist with a fringe settler group calling itself 
the National Jewish Front, said Sternhell was an irrelevant figure and 
that he did not believe settlers were behind the attack. "I don't 
denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved," 
Ben-Gvir said.
Settlers regularly clash with Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in 
the West Bank, but the use of weapons against political opponents in 
Israel is uncommon. There have, however, been precedents. A pro-
settlement extremist shot and killed Rabin in 1995 as he spearheaded 
efforts to strike a peace deal with the Palestinians. Another extremist 
killed a member of Peace Now with a grenade at a 1983 peace protest.
Sternhell frequently writes for Haaretz and was awarded the Israel Prize 
in political science in February 2008.
Recently, Sternhell has received threatening phone calls. Police assess 
that the background for the attempt to harm Professor Sternhell is 
politically motivated. They suspect that right-wing activists carried out 
the attack in response to his remarks decrying Israeli settlers.
Five months ago, the High Court of Justice deferred a petition by the 
Legal Forum for the State of Israel against the decision to award the 
Israel Prize in political science to Sternhell.
The petition condemned Education Minister Yuli Tamir and the judicial 
committee who awarded Sternhell the prize. Sternhell, the petition 
claimed, was not deserving of the prize because of his remarks in the 
media, specifically an article he wrote in Haaretz which justified an 
attack by Palestinians on settlers. 
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vergognoso

 vergognoso
e inquietante.
Spero solo che sia stato un matto isolato.
MMAX
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 Spero solo che sia stato un matto isolato.
Spero che li becchino. presto.
Tb

 Spero solo che sia stato un matto isolato.
hai letto il suo libro sull'illuminismo?
bello, davvero bello


questo è il genere di notizie che, paragonato ai timori citofonici di
Persio, fa fare a Persio la figura del pirla.
(btw, quando io postai su questo ng che Sternhell aveva vinto il
Premio Israele per le sue ricerche, in cui mostrava anche il fondo
comune tra sionisti nazionalisti e sionisti socialisti, manolesta
giovannino andò a pescare una roba insultante)


#_Certo e`che anche voi avrete da fare un bel repulisti se si vuole arrivare 
ad una certa soluzione!
G. 

 arrivare ad una certa soluzione!
Trinchetto vattene un po' affanculo eh?
MMAX
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#_Scusa, avrei dovuto forse bussare alla porta del circoletto?
MMAX massimodimmerda....ti dimentichi che questo e` dominio pubblico!?...e 
non capisci manco il tenore dei miei interventi.
PUAH!
G.

 non capisci manco il tenore dei miei interventi. PUAH!
Mimmo, roditi con compostezza.
E' un episodio che scatena fantasie ben  piu' ampie [e informate] di 
quelle che tu possa minimamente immaginare.
Ed è una materia molto seria e dolorsoa, per cui il vaffanculo a chi 
superficialmente parla  di "fare pulizia" prima che si sappiano i perchè 
e i percome e chi..scatterebbe anche verso un ben informato e  coinvolto.
MMAX
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 MMAX
#_M'ero ripromesso di non rispondere , perche` oramai sono abbastanza stufo 
di vedere che la firma Giano e` per te (come per altri) una garanzia e 
motivo per alterchi, ma lo faccio per puro tentativo di spiegare, se ce ne 
fosse ancora bisogno, la genuinita` della mia frase.
Chi ha portato a termine questo attentato ha colpito certamente una persona 
integerrima; preziosa per trovare una soluzione pacifica alla situazione 
tesissima esistente. (e non dimentichiamoci mai di Y.Rabin, in partenza)
Io forse troppo ovviamente ci vedo IMVHO quelle frange di ultradestra che 
cercano l'opposto ed e' di queste che evidenti o no, bisogna far piazza 
pulita.
G. 

 giovannino andò a pescare una roba insultante)
???? Mi quoteresti?

 #_M'ero ripromesso di non rispondere
però non riesci a mantenere le promesse.
manco quelle che fai a te stesso...
dovresti sputarti negli occhi: in tutt' e quattro.
<:3)-

 Io forse troppo ovviamente ci vedo
impossibile, troppe seghe,.