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Actually, Ne'eman is not the only lefty tossing about the term "civil war" these days, when referring to something they would like to see happen because too many Israelis refuse to endorse the extremist Left. A.B. Yehoshua uses the term also. They do not mean a civil war in which people challenge one another to spelling bees or soap box debates. They mean a civil war in which lots of people get killed.

… But the calls for bloodshed coming from Comrade Ne'eman and his friends are tame compared to what just came out of the mouth of one Oded Regev, a faculty member in physics at the Technion (http://physics.technion.ac.il/~regev/). … Regev published an internet article in response to Ne'eman's call for civil war entitled, "If you will have me, I am in." He adds there that if he would be permitted to lead a company of artillery he would gladly open fire at the evil side, meaning the Right and the religious Jews. He adds, "I also believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of that term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated." Regev went on to describe those rabbis arrested by Shai Nitzan and his friends as "those who continue in the tradition of Goebbels."

http://zioncon.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-calls-for-bloodshed-and-violence.html

Open Calls for Bloodshed and Violence coming from the Israeli Far Left

posted by Steven Plaut
Saturday, July 09, 2011

The leftist prosecution in Israel, in large part led by the leftist anti-democratic Deputy Attorney General Shai Nitzan, continues to hound and harass rabbis for daring to exercise freedom of speech. The crime of the felonious clergy was to recommend that people read a book that the prosecution regards as "incitement" and "racism." The problem with that is that in a democracy one is allowed to recommend books to others that are incitement, racism, and even downright garbage.

Meanwhile, the total hypocrisy of the dual justice system in Israel and the selective suppression of freedom of speech are all on display this week. The latest development is that members of Israel's radical Left, or what I would call the fascist Left, are increasingly calling openly for murder and violence. And Shai Nitzan and his underlings are not doing a thing about this.

First, a few days ago, the leftist anti-Israel extremist, Professor "Judd" Ne'eman, who teaches film at Tel Aviv University, outdid himself and called for a civil war against the Israeli "Right." Ne'eman made it clear that he wants this civil war to break out as a tactic to aid the Palestinian campaign against Israel. He has a long, long track record of issuing violently anti-Israel pronouncements (see http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Alon%20Ben%20Shaul%20-%20Yehuda%20Neeman.htm), which is why the Likud government decided he is deserving of receiving the Israel Prize. The Israel Prize is generally awarded to the worst far-leftist haters of Israel, including when the Likud is in power. Knesset Member David Rotem from Lieberman's Israel Beiteninu party just called upon Shai Nitzan explicitly to arrest and indict Ne'eman. Don't hold your breath for this to happen. After all, Ne'eman is not a rabbi.

But the calls for bloodshed coming from Comrade Ne'eman and his friends are tame compared to what just came out of the mouth of one Oded Regev, a faculty member in physics at the Technion (http://physics.technion.ac.il/~regev/). Born in Poland in 1946, he moved to Israel when he was 12. What is astonishing is that such a person teaches at the Technion. It is very unusual to find far-Leftists on the Technion's faculty, although it used to have a handful of Stalinists from the Communist Party, long ago retired.

Regev published an internet article in response to Ne'eman's call for civil war entitled, "If you will have me, I am in." He adds there that if he would be permitted to lead a company of artillery he would gladly open fire at the evil side, meaning the Right and the religious Jews. He adds, "I also believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of that term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated." Regev went on to describe those rabbis arrested by Shai Nitzan and his friends as "those who continue in the tradition of Goebbels."
(In Hebrew, http://www.bhol.co.il/forums/topic.asp?cat_id=4&topic_id=2902508&forum_id=771)

The President of the Technion is Prof. Peretz Lavie. If you would like to tell him what you think of Regev's comments, Lavie's email is president@technion.ac.il and his fax is 972-4-829200. You should cc Prof. Rafael Rom at vppard@dp.technion.ac.il

As for complaining about Ne'eman, you can find the relevant information here: http://isracampus.org.il/How%20to%20Complain.htm

Finally, the Israeli press this weekend is all upset about a different incident involving the very same Shai Nitzan. It seems some people who were upset at Nitzan's campaign of arresting and harassing Rabbis ran up against him at a wedding to which he was invited and engaged in some drive-by catcalls and insults directed at Nitzan. The media are livid. How dare those guttersnipes spoil the festive mood for Nitzan at a wedding!

Now I found that story of some personal interest. It seems that I occasionally bump into Nitzan at my own synagogue. He has some relatives who are regulars in the shul. I must confess that, while tempted, I have never told him off in shul. Not even on Purim. In fact the last time I saw him in shul it really WAS Purim. While directing no rude comments in his direction, I did make a point of prancing in front of him – I was dressed up for Purim as Naomi Chazan with a great big rhino horn on my nose. Just to get his goat. It was my way of daring him to arrest me for incitement!

And while I do not exactly condone harassing him at weddings, I insist that the harassment of rabbis for exercising their freedom of speech is a far worse breach of etiquette.