'Ongoing criminality.' Nathan
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The hypocrites are back
Abie Nathan was a good man, but saying that he ‘contributed to peace’ is absurd
Doing the “right thing” around here means eulogizing Abie Nathan as the “peace sailor” and the “fighter for peace” while saying nothing about his ongoing ideological criminality and illegal meetings with terror leaders, just because it was done on behalf of the holy peace.
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Suddenly it is so lovely to be anti-establishment, when this is commensurate with the “right values,” now isn’t it?
Doing the right thing around here means not saying a bad word about the fact that Nathan legitimized the scoundrel Yassar Arafat and helped turn him into an accepted figure among Israelis. Oh, such holy naïveté.
Doing the right thing around here means not to criticize Nathan’s ongoing criminality in respect to the pirate radio station he was operating, Voice of Peace, because it was not the terrible Arutz 7, the settler radio, but rather, “one of us.”
We all paid the price
Doing the right thing is to say that Nathan “paid a price” for all his meetings with Arab terrorists, even though later on all the hypocritical politicians proceeded to hug them. Doing the right thing in some circles means making us forget that the hugs shared with Arafat and his ilk ultimately brought a terrible disaster to the region. All of us paid the price for that.
The kind words that should be uttered about the late Abie Nathan have to do with the fact that he was a good man who sought to do good deeds for people far away from here, to a much larger extent than the people around him were good to him.
Nathan’s memory should be blessed because he was completely dedicated to his ideas, because he added color to our lives, and because his heart was open to distress in far off places that most people did not care about.
But to talk about his “contribution to peace?” To say that “everyone listened to his radio station?” – This is yet another invention by the hypocrites.
