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Leftist professor: Bombing of my home signals end of Israeli democracy
By Shahar Ilan and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondent, Channel 10 and Haaretz Service
Tags: Lefist, Israel News 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for September 25, 2008.

Professor Ze'ev Sternhell, the victim of a pipe bomb attack
at his home on Thursday, warned that the attack could signal the end of Israeli democracy.

Sternhell, a Haaretz columnist and left wing activist, was lightly hurt in the bombing, which occurred as he walked out of his home in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood shortly after midnight.
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Police suspect right-wing extremists of having carried out the attack. They said they found fliers offering more than NIS 1 million to anyone who kills members of the left-wing organization Peace Now at Sternhell's home following the blast.

Sternhell, an internationally renowned expert on the history of fascism, was awarded the country's highest honor, the Israel Prize, earlier this year. He has often voiced his opposition to settlements, which he has branded a "historical disaster."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed outrage at news of the bombing.

"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," he said.

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.



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      1.   The Tyranny of the Radical Right, the Narcissism of the Left 04:49  |  SearchForNuance 26/09/08
      2.   what chutzpah, what arrogance. he`s wrong it is he who is off the 05:57  |  ralph 26/09/08
      3.   no, no, no 07:16  |  truth 26/09/08
      4.   Bombing of my home ... 07:34  |  Jacob 26/09/08
      5.   the pipe bomb 09:01  |  Iche behr 26/09/08
      6.   The Prof. is right, but for the wrong reasons 10:04  |  Proud Israeli 26/09/08
      7.   #1 Narcisism? 11:49  |  A.M. 26/09/08
      8.   yes!# 3 11:55  |  A.M. 26/09/08
      9.   Absolutely agree with Proud Israeli, and... 12:02  |  Israeli citizen 26/09/08
      10.   #6 No mandate? 12:08  |  A.M. 26/09/08
      11.   Laughable "professor" and laughable defenders, e..g. A.M. 07:34  |  sk 28/09/08
      12.   Laughable "professor" and laughable defenders, part 2 07:38  |  sk 28/09/08
      13.   end of Israeli democracy 19:26  |  Chuck 28/09/08
      14.   to #7 A.M. 00:10  |  Rolandus 29/09/08
      15.   Louis XIV complex of the publicity hungry Prof. 00:31  |  Absolute Sweden 29/09/08
      16.   Israeli democracy 15:43  |  Ralph 06/10/08
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