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Other Israelis found no room for doubt. "Anyone directing terrorism is a proper target for elimination," said Major General Amnon Shahak, the I.D.F.'s head of intelligence. Some Israelis predicted that the attack would boost morale throughout the country, and especially within an army frustrated by its inability to put down the uprising and polish Israel's international image as a formidable foe. They suggested that by robbing the P.L.O. of the man responsible for military operations against Israel, the operation had delivered the Palestinians a crippling blow that would demoralize their spirits and deflate the uprising...
Under pressure there have always been and always will be, in every country of the world, instances of the misuse of physical power. Yet to compare this to the genocidal policy of the Nazis, as Shahak does, and to speak in terms of the "Nazification of Israel" -- this is nothing more than the workings of a sick mind...
...concentration camp theory as propounded by Shahak operates according to the "big-lie theory". But should we be surprised? After all, what should be expected from an Israeli who describes the Jewish people as "a fanatical and bloodthirsty mob searching for blood...
...does not seem to matter to The Crimson, if Shahak's statements are lies, half-truths, and outright slander. When Shahak says that the discrimination against Arabs in the Jewish State closes all branches of the government to them, how does he explain the presence of Arab members in Israeli Labour Party and in that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament...
...Perhaps Shahak and his lies should simply be ignored. Such is the view of Uri Avineri, a dove and outspoken Israeli government critic. That Shahak has been and continues to be allowed "to express his ideas freely without removing him from the University" is perhaps the best refutation of Shahak's claims. It is unfortunate that The Crimson devoted not inconsiderable attention to this publicity-mad-man. Jessica Sandler...