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Heads to the right By Gideon Levy Tags: Israel, Gideon Levy Click here for more articles by Gideon Levy It is still unclear whether the terrorist who entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva on Thursday night and killed eight of its students knew exactly what place he was entering. But the thousands of people who walked behind the coffins on Friday knew very well. "The flagship of religious Zionism" was the common expression used, the "holy of holies"; there was even a hyperbolic comparison to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in terms of sanctity. Some of the praise of the yeshiva is certainly well deserved, and nothing, of course, can justify the horrible killing of young boys in a library. Still, it would be appropriate to recall, even at this difficult hour, what this yeshiva has brought forth. Mercaz Harav is the flagship of the last group in Israeli society still operating in the realm of ideas. Religious Zionists are the only group, aside from the ultra-Orthodox population, whose members are willing to lay down their lives for the collective and its worldview. It is a group that responds faithfully to its leaders - a group that even has leaders - and idolizes them. It is also a fairly homogenous group in terms of its thinking: Some 80 percent of its members define themselves as right-wingers. None of this is true of Israel's complacent, individualist secular public. And so we end up with a minority, 12 to 15 percent of the population, whose influence in certain areas is crucial and far exceeds its own relative size. Advertisement No one can explain in depth the magical powers of extortion this group has obtained. Nor can anyone ignore the damage it has caused the country. Without the settlement enterprise, peace might have reigned here already; without the Gush Emunim movement, supported by successive Israeli governments, there would be no settlements; and without the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, there would be no Gush Emunim. This institution, then, was the cradle of the settlement enterprise and its driving force. Most of the students killed in the terrorist attack were second-generation settlers. It should be said again, clearly and unequivocally: Their killing was a criminal act. (An unusual personal comment: On Friday I said in a radio interview, among other things, that the Mercaz Harav yeshiva was a fascist institution; right-wing circles spread a rumor on the Internet that I had said the slain students were fascists. This is not true. In any case, if my comment about the yeshiva offended people in their grief, I wish to express my sincere sorrow and apology). From Mercaz Harav emerged the rabbis that led the vilest move in Zionist history. Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship. Religious leaders such as Rabbis Moshe Levinger, Haim Druckman, Avraham Shapira, Yaakov Ariel, Zefania Drori, Shlomo Aviner and Dov Lior, all idolized by their students, raised generations of nationalist youths within those walls. Rabbi Lior, for example, head of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria, ruled in 2004 that the Israel Defense Forces was allowed to kill innocent people. How do these words sound now, after the attack in Jerusalem? Is the permission ours alone? Back then, Lior ruled that, "There should be no feeling of guilt at the morality of foreigners." He decreed that the Knesset could not decide to evacuate settlements, and that soldiers were allowed to refuse the order to evacuate settlers. Rabbi Druckman made a similar ruling. In 2002, Rabbi Aviner, another graduate of the yeshiva, called for the execution of Israelis who refused to serve in the military. Back then the refusal came from left-wingers, of course. Aviner also ruled that war casualties are no cause for national grief, and he called for the abolition of Yom Hazikaron, the annual day of remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers. He compared the road map peace plan to the appeasement of Hitler and considers the evacuation of settlements an "illegal crime." The same yeshiva graduated Hanan Porat, one of the founders of Gush Emunim and one of those who returned to Gush Etzion. Another alumnus, Rabbi Levinger, beat him to it with the Jewish settlement at the Park Hotel in the heart of Hebron. These are the prominent figures that have emerged from this radical seminary and that is their legacy. From here they preached the application of different laws of morality and justice than the universal ones; yes, where the chosen people is concerned, there is such a thing. With all the changes religious Zionism has undergone - from the time the Mizrahi movement joined the Zionist Congress, through its existence as a moderate stream that deftly managed to combine religion and modernity, to its transformation into the source of Israeli nationalism - the movement has managed to retain an exalted, inexplicable standing in Israel's largely secular society. There are still very many secular Israelis who view the religious Zionists, the students of the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and the West Bank's so-called "hilltop youths" as a group of pioneers committed to noble values, as the pillar of fire advancing before the camp. Even those who deeply detest the Haredi public reserve a warm spot in their hearts for religious Zionism, the very group that has inflicted more calamity on us than all the Haredim put together. The killing at the yeshiva is heartrending. No one deserved it. The innocents in Gaza and the victims at Mercaz Harav in Jerusalem were all an unnecessary sacrifice. They have already paid the highest possible price. Their families and those around them will probably adopt even more radical positions now, and so we will be led into another round of endless bloodshed. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Disturbing trend Jewish Agency says Anti-Semitic acts in Jan. 2009 triple last year's records. After the war IDF gains in Gaza have softened Israel's stance on Shalit deal.   1.   powerful 11:22  |  Shrek 09/03/08   2.   Shame on you Gideon Levy 11:22  |  Zev 09/03/08   3.   Settlers there due to secular leaders who sympathized with them 11:24  |  Sam 09/03/08   4.   GIDEON Read your own headline! 11:28  |  PETER SM 09/03/08   5.   How come Marcus doesn`t employ an arab who could cut Marcus throa 11:32  |  Absolute Sweden 09/03/08   6.   GIDEON LEVY OR THE TALENT TO SAY 11:37  |  Robert 09/03/08   7.   Talking of "vile"... 11:40  |  Mary 09/03/08   8.   Correction 11:40  |  D Hirod 09/03/08   9.   too easy 11:56  |  goupil 09/03/08   10.   What all that has to do with the murder of kids? You are really 12:02  |  Former leftist 09/03/08   11.   Levy, you are to be pitied 12:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 09/03/08   12.   unbalanced articles 12:47  |  Ilana 09/03/08   13.   Another apologist for Hamas and their ilk 13:07  |  Robert Haymond 09/03/08   14.   levy ( we need an oncologist) 13:19  |  danny 09/03/08   15.   gideon the fool 13:20  |  miriam 09/03/08   16.   Haaretz, Have You No Morals? 13:26  |  Jane 09/03/08   17.   jewish values 13:26  |  Norman Halfteck 09/03/08   18.   Gideon and Amira Embraces ARAFAT!! 13:28  |  Dr eric 09/03/08   19.   Gideon Levi - Author of protocols of Elders of Zion 13:30  |  Susan 09/03/08   20.   Why don`t you just shut up 13:42  |  Shalom Freedman 09/03/08   21.   Bravo Gideon 13:47  |  peacelover 09/03/08   22.   Gideon Levy 13:47  |  Ceaser 09/03/08   23.   Fair enough. 13:48  |  examiner 09/03/08   24.   Who runs Israel? 13:49  |  Clickfool 09/03/08   25.   This Yeshiva has sown the wind and is now reaping the storm 13:52  |  Kris 09/03/08   26.   Gideon and Levy 14:04  |  Eliyahu 09/03/08   27.   Cipora, piously preaching to the Peanut Gallery # 11 14:07  |  Clickfool 09/03/08   28.   Look in the Mirror 14:12  |  George Kaplan 09/03/08   29.   Envy 14:17  |  Nathan 09/03/08   30.   It is Rabin that caused the mess 14:18  |  judith 09/03/08   31.   Mr Gideon levi. 14:22  |  David Nigel Braham 09/03/08   32.   A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE 14:24  |  indrajaya 09/03/08   33.   gideon levy excuses terror 14:24  |  elliot 09/03/08   34.   The use of the word fascist - degraded to a swearword 14:26  |  Geoff - Sydney 09/03/08   35.   A morality guide spewed out by a morally bankrupt Levy 14:29  |  Proud Israeli 09/03/08   36.   Gideon Levy is what is vile 14:33  |  Steven 09/03/08   37.   How dare you 14:34  |  Slibovitz 09/03/08   38.   Hebrew Union College 14:44  |  Johnny Weintraub 09/03/08   39.   Sorry, Ms. Kohn 14:56  |  Gideon (not L.) 09/03/08   40.   Gideon Levy is a Fascist Murderer 14:58  |  Zvi 09/03/08   41.   israeli press fails in its journalistic function 14:59  |  Meir 09/03/08   42.   Gideon Levy`s obituary... 15:03  |  Michael 09/03/08   43.   Can Gideon Levy find religion? 15:11  |  Tosefta 09/03/08   44.   Drivel 15:13  |  sam 09/03/08   45.   Levy is Right 15:17  |  RMB 09/03/08   46.   shame on you 15:18  |  szl 09/03/08   47.   Gideon Levy has no humanity 15:21  |  Talia 09/03/08   48.   Baruch Goldstein 15:22  |  Jeffrey 09/03/08   49.   What Was Rav Kook`s "X Factor"? 15:25  |  Rowan Berkeley 09/03/08   50.   I agree 15:26  |  Jonathan 09/03/08   51.   Not Helpful 15:30  |  Harry D 09/03/08   52.   Fair enough. 15:36  |  examiner 09/03/08   53.   Gideon raises his head again 15:43  |  Steven 09/03/08   54.   a palgue on you, Levy 15:43  |  noah 09/03/08   55.   Can Gideon Levy find religion? 15:44  |  Tosefta 09/03/08   56.   Cipora Kohn. We are watching the unfolding of a holocaust under 15:45  |  Benjamin 09/03/08   57.   i consider myself left-wing, but gideon levy needs mental help 15:51  |  eli m 09/03/08   58.   This article is most disturbing 15:51  |  KUTW 09/03/08   59.   A reminder to Mr. Levy 15:52  |  KUTW 09/03/08   60.   gideon levy 15:52  |  Norman Halfteck 09/03/08   61.   Gideon is absolutely right! And I want to add that those 15:56  |  lakshmi 09/03/08   62.   Levy is right 16:03  |  Benny 09/03/08   63.   Levy is no Leftist: he`s a supporter of totalitarian ideas 16:11  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 09/03/08   64.   #25, Tosefta 16:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 09/03/08   65.   Well put but perhaps a bit too far?!? 16:17  |  Josh 09/03/08   66.   An Evil Fool 16:24  |  David Samson 09/03/08   67.   Gideon Levy you are despicable 16:26  |  Joey 09/03/08   68.   Josh # 32, you are a fool. 16:38  |  Chris 09/03/08   69.   #17 SZL, The real shame is on the Israelis 16:39  |  Dutch 09/03/08   70.   Josh from TA #32 16:40  |  Joseph 09/03/08   71.   Gideon Levi 16:43  |  iwantananswer 09/03/08   72.   Unbelievable 16:45  |  Joe G. 09/03/08   73.   It takes a certain amount of ugliness to publish such comments 16:54  |  Jacobb Blues 09/03/08   74.   Simply disgusting 16:54  |  Xaxam 09/03/08   75.   Gideon Levy attempts to set up a Sukkah of one 16:58  |  Jacob Blues 09/03/08   76.   #37 Self Professed trad Leftist Min TA ex SA 16:58  |  lABHRAS 09/03/08   77.   Levy`s painful but necessary perspective 17:00  |  Itzik 09/03/08   78.   levy. You remind me of the Kapos my father... 17:00  |  bat yam 09/03/08   79.   Tired of Gideon Levy 17:21  |  Julian 09/03/08   80.   Itzik good that you`re in Australia, make your compromises 17:26  |  x-ray 09/03/08   81.   God`s job (Bird from Outerspace #65) 17:31  |  Tosefta 09/03/08   82.   # 16 Haaretz 18:03  |  Yona K 09/03/08   83.   Tamir`s visit to Yeshiva confirmed that Gideon is right 18:09  |  Avi C 09/03/08   84.   "The innocents in Gaza"? Hamas fighters don`t exist 18:11  |  McQueen 09/03/08   85.   GIDEON IS NOBLE MAN - THE REAL `CHOSEN ONE` 18:12  |  JACKAL 09/03/08   86.   Pay little attention to the apologists trying to shift the blame 18:12  |  Dutch 09/03/08   87.   Heads off! Where is your head? 18:12  |  Oscar 09/03/08   88.   To 39, J. Weintraub - comparing apples and oranges 18:12  |  David 09/03/08   89.   My Children 18:14  |  HaShem 09/03/08   90.   Gideon Levy, are you still alive? 18:19  |  hollingsworth 09/03/08   91.   Who has put the damage on Israel. 18:27  |  Erik D 09/03/08   92.   Gideon Levy,you are the reason for the survival of Israel 18:27  |  Zaki 09/03/08   93.   Re Cipora #11 18:42  |  Esther 09/03/08   94.   Gideon Levy 18:44  |  DANNY 09/03/08   95.   Gideon Levy forgot to give some perspective 18:44  |  Tosefta 09/03/08   96.   #80 X- ray 19:01  |  Labhras 09/03/08   97.   Esther 93 U still in TA? told you to get some fresh air in Gaza 19:02  |  Chris 09/03/08   98.   Hold it till reason returns 19:04  |  Mike 09/03/08   99.   Gideon Levy is indeed dispicable # 67 19:09  |  Marwan M 09/03/08   100.   #95 Beards required- TV`s banned 19:10  |  Roo 09/03/08   101.   Yeshivas are breeding ground for Jewish Terrorism 19:26  |  Ariel 09/03/08   102.   gideon not a human being 19:32  |  hillel 09/03/08   103.   Hang in there Gideon 19:38  |  Abie 09/03/08   104.   Timing? 19:40  |  Joseph 09/03/08   105.   The soul mates of Alaa Abu Dheim 19:43  |  Ilan 09/03/08   106.   West Bank 19:45  |  Joe 09/03/08   107.   Who does Levy write for? 19:48  |  Sherlock Holmes 09/03/08   108.   Gideon Levy, YOU are responsible for this indirectly 20:04  |  Moises 09/03/08   109.   Shrek from Geneva 20:08  |  pal 09/03/08   110.   Gideon Levy is absolutely right.......... 20:09  |  Deborah 09/03/08   111.   Heros who saved Israel from gideon Levi and his ilk 20:11  |  Joseph 09/03/08   112.   .. and he climbed up the mountain 20:15  |  mhung 09/03/08   113.   Gideon Levy 20:17  |  Philip Leider 09/03/08   114.   # 63 Margie 20:19  |  christa 09/03/08   115.   #14 Zvi 20:34  |  Claire 09/03/08   116.   Gideon the slimeball 20:34  |  Bobby the Jew 09/03/08   117.   Day after day 20:35  |  Claire 09/03/08   118.   The Middle East`s Only Democracy...Fractured Bits and Pieces... 20:38  |  Reader 09/03/08   119.   Proud Israeli...Sadly, it has. 20:44  |  Reader 09/03/08   120.   Thank you Gideon Levy - 1st try 20:45 HT 20:45  |  BBSNews 09/03/08   121.   # 95 Tosefta....thank God the police caught them 21:10  |  Lynn 09/03/08   122.   Levy seeking t o justify the murders of Jews 21:18  |  bernard ross 09/03/08   123.   Little difference 21:26  |  Janice 09/03/08   124.   to anglo israeli talkbackists 21:27  |  maya 09/03/08   125.   love u to 21:32  |  maya 09/03/08   126.   Are they permitted to leave if they don`t want to have beards? 21:33  |  x-ray 09/03/08   127.   love thy other 21:37  |  maya 09/03/08   128.   damm right 21:41  |  maya 09/03/08   129.   brave souls of haaretz 21:46  |  maya 09/03/08   130.   Struck by the shining light 21:49  |  Gideon Reader 09/03/08   131.   The Sorbonne in Paris 21:49  |  Altalena 09/03/08   132.   Gideon equates "Right Wingers" with Terrorists... Again. 21:54  |  Efox 09/03/08   133.   Mahmoud Abbas paper paid tribute 2 this mass-murderer of Yeshiva 22:46  |  David Stoler 09/03/08   134.   CJK - 22:58  |  17 09/03/08   135.   Peace depends only on settlements?? What a narrow pt of view 22:59  |  Alain 09/03/08   136.   Revolting article 23:07  |  Jordan 09/03/08   137.   brave article 23:32  |  hipolito 09/03/08   138.   Do you settle your disputes with a bullet? 23:40  |  John 09/03/08   139.   Lakshmi and Indrajaya- then it could apply to Muslims too 23:46  |  Curtis Jackson 09/03/08   140.   Gideon Levy. 00:02  |  Maureen Ann 10/03/08   141.   This Gideon is a wimp! 00:20  |  Webster 10/03/08   142.   Tosefta 00:33  |  LL 10/03/08   143.   BURN IN GEHINNOM!! 00:34  |  your mama 10/03/08   144.   you are a man full of hate 00:54  |  mike 10/03/08   145.   Fire this contemptable murder supporter 00:56  |  Noam 10/03/08   146.   Indecent and inappropriate 00:58  |  Janet 10/03/08   147.   Gideons having a party 01:01  |  Elvis Scudbubble 10/03/08   148.   Judaism Hijacked 01:06  |  Ed 10/03/08   149.   I do not see "Zionism" as vile 01:13  |  Mark Lincoln 10/03/08   150.   Gideon, please start a Yeshiva 01:16  |  Jon 10/03/08   151.   Gideon is right//brave article 01:29  |  hipolito 10/03/08   152.   Don`t apologise to these fascist thugs 01:30  |  Chanalau, Tova 10/03/08   153.   Gideon Levy villifying the teenage victims. Shame on you! 01:51  |  Free Gilad Shalit 10/03/08   154.   Informative article 01:55  |  gearoid 10/03/08   155.   Levy the lefty 02:09  |  Jack 10/03/08   156.   Maya 123 02:21  |  Free Gilad Shalit 10/03/08   157.   Judaism Hijacked true enough 02:27  |  Fredje 10/03/08   158.   #81, Tosefta 02:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/03/08   159.   #29, Gideon reader: It is attempts to stifle.. 02:34  |  Wise Syrian 10/03/08   160.   Maya 123 - Who are you trying to kid?? 02:43  |  Free Gilad Shalit 10/03/08   161.   Gideon Levy, just to pick one of the many things 02:59  |  psi 10/03/08   162.   How does Levy resolve this conundrum? 03:01  |  Joe Sittizen 10/03/08   163.   What I learned in Yeshiva 03:07  |  Yehuda 10/03/08   164.   Mr. Gideon Levy is a very SICK PERSON 03:07  |  Jorge 10/03/08   165.   The religious zionists 03:28  |  Doron 10/03/08   166.   Is that a fact, Yehuda? 03:41  |  hollingsworth 10/03/08   167.   Vilest Hate Haaretz has Printed -- And That Says Alot 04:00  |  Harold 10/03/08   168.   Palestine is a country 04:08  |  George Wandry 10/03/08   169.   Gideon Levy 04:10  |  Howard 10/03/08   170.   Mr. Levi you are one disgusting individual 04:24  |  Dr. Allan 10/03/08   171.   #153; Palestine has never existed! 04:31  |  Palestiniansareamyth 10/03/08   172.   Irgun killed young children too 04:33  |  Denise 10/03/08   173.   Military service 04:36  |  Denise 10/03/08   174.   THESE PEOPLE FIGHT FOR ISRAEL. WHAT ABOUT YOU, MR. LEVY? 04:39  |  TOM 10/03/08   175.   Sorry, but there are no Jews on Mars #149 04:57  |  Tosefta 10/03/08   176.   Gideon Levy is a Jewish Nazi 05:19  |  Bill 10/03/08   177.   Shame on you Levy 05:19  |  sechel 10/03/08   178.   chanalu,rah 05:25  |  Connie 10/03/08   179.   How do you justify my brother`s murder? 05:52  |  Ronnbo 10/03/08   180.   with jews this hostile and idiotic as levy, who needs arabs 05:55  |  jj 10/03/08   181.   MERCAZ HARAV TERRORISTS 06:19  |  Ehud 10/03/08   182.   Gideon Levy. Thank you. 06:33  |  Nick Ferriman 10/03/08   183.   This attack will do much to destroy israeli leftists 06:59  |  Voice of Reason 10/03/08   184.   #11 - Cipora Julianna Kohn 07:06  |  Michael 10/03/08   185.   #164, Tosefta 07:10  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/03/08   186.   It is not killing, it is SECURITY 07:29  |  The Archives 10/03/08   187.   another excellent perspective from gideon 07:40  |  eric 10/03/08   188.   # 35 it is YOU who is "morally" deficient, proud israeli 08:18  |  eric 10/03/08   189.   Oh so Typical.... 08:21  |  Micha 10/03/08   190.   Levy has been selective 08:26  |  sh 10/03/08   191.   FERRIMAN.Fill in some gaps. Why the Islamic terror in Thailand? 08:49  |  PETER SM 10/03/08   192.   There is no end to Gideon Levy`s spite 08:50  |  Susan 10/03/08   193.   #176, eric is here to spread his hate 09:11  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/03/08   194.   Such Outrage--No Justice, No Peace. 09:20  |  jack 10/03/08   195.   Christa 09:21  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 10/03/08   196.   Mr. levy why your brand of peace did not happen 09:36  |  leah 10/03/08   197.   GIDEON Does your"honesty"run to an article on Global Jihad 09:37  |  PETER SM 10/03/08   198.   Oscar-Yes, we in the civilized world do not believe in death. 09:45  |  Jack 10/03/08   199.   Gideon Levy draws quotes out of context 09:54  |  DJStahl 10/03/08   200.   funny 10:25  |  Pitcher 10/03/08   201.   Fair and Justified - A fanatic school produces fanatic students 10:26  |  Farid 10/03/08   202.   Vile Rabbis? 10:36  |  Fred 10/03/08   203.   Hope for Israel 11:42  |  Milo 10/03/08   204.   Dear Mr. Levy 11:48  |  American Christian 10/03/08   205.   Tosefta regarding Cipora and Conscience 12:37  |  Dorothy 10/03/08   206.   gideon levy hates israel 14:33  |  Zody 10/03/08   207.   Peace 17:18  |  Erez 10/03/08   208.   Martian morality (Dorothy #205) 17:32  |  Tosefta 10/03/08   209.   Lakshmi the Dothead 17:56  |  Lev the Yid 10/03/08   210.   Gideon Levy 18:00  |  Manners 10/03/08   211.   The Bushot of Mr. Levy -A very sad reality of Tzfoni Secularism 18:02  |  Lev the Yid 10/03/08   212.   fairness 18:15  |  carlo 10/03/08   213.   Tosefta #208: Cipora and Conscience (Morality) 19:07  |  Dorothy 10/03/08   214.   #176 It`s getting out of hand now 19:22  |  hollingsworth 10/03/08   215.   Gideon Levy vindicated - 1st try 20:38 HT 20:38  |  BBSNews 10/03/08   216.   #213, Dorothy on alert 22:17  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/03/08   217.   # 193 how pathetic of you, cipora 09:56  |  eric 11/03/08   218.   Blind with hatred 11:59  |  Rabbi Dr M. Sloman 11/03/08   219.   lack of sensitivity 15:50  |  aaron goldscheider 11/03/08   220.   too much hate in the air 19:58  |  thomas 11/03/08   221.   One Jew blaming another for calamities 20:44  |  Eve 11/03/08   222.   Truth is what justice needs 21:21  |  surfer 15/03/08   223.   to CJ Kohn #11 04:36  |  zeev 18/03/08

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