From Larry Derfner’s Facebook page this morning:
To everyone who’s sent me amazing support, I’m a little overwhelmed w/gratitude – I’m a little overwhelmed otherwise, too, but I’ll write more very soon. I can definitely say I’m having a better day than I was yesterday, tho that ain’t saying much. I appreciate your support more than I can say. Thanks again.
It’s amazing that Derfner has gotten amazing support. And why: Because he has told the truth, what everyone believes, about the inevitability of violent resistance, and even the right to violent resistance, when a people is occupied. Something Goldstone shied away from, but that other international legal experts have affirmed. And in writing as much, and so eloquently, and losing his job for it, he has set off a vital debate about the roots of terrorism.
I urge Derfner to repost his original post, that he censored. It is an important piece of writing.
Rightwinger Barry Rubin writes (h/t to Dimi Reider) that Derfner should not have been fired, he should be debated. I assume this is because Rubin lately wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post, for which he was not fired, in which he said that the child victims of Anders Breivik on the Norwegian island of Utoya were “pro-terrorism.”
The youth camp he attacked was engaged in what was essentially (though the campers didn’t see it that way, no doubt) a pro-terrorist program.
The camp, run by Norway’s left-wing party, was lobbying for breaking the blockade of the terrorist Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip, and for immediate recognition of a Palestinian state, without that entity needing to do anything that would prevent it from being used as a terrorist base against Israel. They were justifying forces that had committed terrorism against Israelis, killing thousands of people like themselves.
And in offering to debate, Rubin puts forward this kind of argument in favor of the endless Israeli occupation, rubbishing the whole idea of human rights. This is going to be a helluva debate.
guess what? If they get independence they will still try to kill us because it will be Israel’s existence and the status of the “pre-1948″ Palestinians that is “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”…
If denying them independence is, “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”
Thus, if they obtained independence would they be so grateful, so happy, or so busy building up their country that they would stop trying to kill us?No. We know–even many of the most dovish and leftist of us–that they will continue to try to kill us from a better strategic position that would make it more likely they would succeed. So what good would that step do? And that is precisely why Israelis are not eager to support independence without any preconditions.
