Terrorism

So, after reading that article about Carter and the quarrels with the Jewish community about his book, I decided to make a post on an interesting tangent. (Note, this is a tangent, not saying Israel is a terrorist state or justifying violence in any form, this is merely informative. Or as informative as I get.)

This post is inspired by this man's book.

Back in the day, there was an Israeli rabbi with beard that just screamed of importance. He founded the Kach party. They were a scary ultra right wing political party that didn't like many people other than Jews. The Israeli government passed some laws that pretty much banned them from taking any legislative seats after the Kach party won a seat in 1984. It's now illegal to be a member of Kach in Israel.

They particularly didn't like Palestinians or people who shook hands with them. This guy shot him. The guy who got shot was the Prime Minister of Israel. Most other people didn't mind them shaking hands. The two men were actually given a medal for shaking hands. Other people who won the award had been shot in the past. Maybe it's bad luck to win an award named after the guy who invented dynamite.

By that time, the Kach party had been banned from the Israeli parliament and had pretty much blended in with an American group which was also founded by the bearded rabbi. They have a web page. Everyone has a web page it seems. Here's a picture of some members of the group. That picture was taken about a quarter mile from the high school I attended.

So when Jennifer Lopez was still Jenny from the block, the bearded rabbi was shot in the Bronx by a guy with a less impressive beard. Perhaps a case of beard envy.

The guy with wicked beard envy had a friend with red hair who drove a taxi. The guy with red hair told the government he was a farmer. He's not the only one to lie about being a farmer. (That guy was the artist's dentist posing with the artist's sister.) The guy with beard envy was supposed to get in the red head's taxi after the shooting. He got into the wrong cab and was arrested. Another guy with a beard helped him pay for an attorney who got him aquitted of murder.

Beard Envy and the Red Headed Taxi Driver got in later trouble for trying to blow up two buildings with a truck bomb. They got arrested for that because they tried to get their deposit back. There are a lot people who are broke and have beards, I guess.

Remember that guy who paid for the lawyer? Some of his friends later succeeded in blowing up those buildings. They used airplanes instead of trucks.

And by the way, the homeless bearded buy from before was hung because of the rich guy with the beard's, who paid for the attorney, friends flew into those buildings.

Long, but interesting. The date it was written makes it even more interesting. *** Note that it was written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan, right leaning think tank that formed from Georgetown University in 1964 and was pretty much an anti-communist group.