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Last update - 20:20 28/09/2008
Olmert: 'Jewish underground' behind attack on leftist prof.
By Reuters
Tags: Ze'ev Sternhell, Peace Now 

A new ultranationalist underground is apparently active in Israel and responsible for a bombing that wounded an outspoken critic of Jewish settlement in the West Bank, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday.

"The security agencies have been ordered to deal with this case, investigate it and act with the utmost speed to bring to justice what appears to be another underground," Olmert told his cabinet in broadcast remarks.

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rofessor Zeev Sternhell, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and a leading opponent of settlement building in the Palestinian territories, was lightly wounded on Thursday when a pipe bomb exploded outside his home.

Police found posters in his Jerusalem neighborhood offering a NIS 1.1 million reward for the killing of a member of Israel's left-wing Peace Now movement.

Olmert compared the bombing with the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish ultranationalist and a hand grenade attack that killed a Peace Now activist in 1983.

"A bad wind of extremism, hate, evil, violence and contempt for state authorities is blowing through certain sectors of the Israeli public and threatening Israeli democracy," said Olmert, who is engaged in land-for-peace talks with the Palestinians.

In the 1980s, a Jewish underground group, acting after six Jewish seminary students were killed in a Palestinian attack, carried out bombings that maimed several West Bank mayors and a shooting in an Islamic college that killed three students.

Members of the group were jailed but the sentences were later commuted by then-President Chaim Herzog.

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      1.   before the investigation 14:14  |  David 28/09/08
      2.   Has anyone claimed they did this yet? 14:28  |  Levi 28/09/08
      3.   Jewish Freedom Fighters 14:52  |  Ronald 28/09/08
      4.   bombing 14:56  |  David Ortiz 28/09/08
      5.   Threat to Democracy 15:13  |  J Hartman 28/09/08
      6.   Olmert looking to lay blame on others for his failures 15:17  |  Avi 28/09/08
      7.   !! Please Include Avishai Raviv in any Investigation... 15:42  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 28/09/08
      8.   Told you so 15:42  |  W 28/09/08
      9.   Utterly irresponsible to put the blame on political 16:09  |  17 28/09/08
      10.   More hysteria, more false flag ops 16:22  |  Martin Greenberg 28/09/08
      11.   Jewish Underground Fighting for Democracy 16:24  |  Dave 28/09/08
      12.   Sacred Land of Israel 16:42  |  Shmuelshachor 28/09/08
      13.   "Jewish extremists" no different from Olmert 18:07  |  Tarik 28/09/08
      14.   Olmert should know--he himself has caused contempt for the law 18:15  |  IW 28/09/08
      15.   Olmert ...... 18:18  |  Dagma 28/09/08
      16.   to Ronald 18:37  |  atheist pal 28/09/08
      17.   Olmert supports Peace Now, terror supporters 18:43  |  Great White North 28/09/08
      18.   Jewish Underground is 18:55  |  Joe 28/09/08
      19.   Olmert: didn`t Sternhell incite Pals to violence againt settlers 19:21  |  Alicia 28/09/08
      20.   Peace Now under review 19:27  |  Meir Weinstein 28/09/08
      21.   Beshah Tova 19:37  |  Proud Israeli 28/09/08
      22.   Bet it was a leftist 19:41  |  Mordechai 28/09/08
      23.   How does "evidence" for this compare with that against Olmert" 19:49  |  Dr. L. Brnd 28/09/08
      24.   Exreme, hate etc... 19:52  |  Avy 28/09/08
      25.   Remember Raviv 20:06  |  howiej 28/09/08
      26.   jewish underground 20:32  |  paul 28/09/08
      27.   Beware: Avishaism around the corner. 20:55  |  Nora 28/09/08
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      31.   #26 Paul 21:07  |  Yonatan 28/09/08
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      37.   Still no proof "whodunit"! 21:59  |  Arie 28/09/08
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      46.   Much ado about Nothing...... 22:41  |  Dolly 28/09/08
      47.   Give those Jewish settlers a free hand..... 22:51  |  The Threadmill 28/09/08
      48.   Jewish Underground behind attack 22:56  |  Joe Charlaff 28/09/08
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