The Gideon Levys of Israel

By Steve Apfel

Conjure if you will, a Greek (or a Briton, a Frenchman, a Japanese) who sets out to make his reputation by defaming the Greek people. If that is worth only a bemused chuckle, what to make of the Gideon Levys of Israel? Levy, you may recall, is the journalist for Ha'aretz who took the results of a poll and contorted them into the libel that most Israeli Jews would support an apartheid system. Now if you want to rubbish a country and its people, apartheid would be the ultimate mud to sling at them. Only look at ingredients listed on the Statute of the ICC (International Criminal Court), Section 7: "Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty; torture, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy and sterilization; persecution of a group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious grounds; disappearance of people in the context of a regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group." The Gideon Levys of.... (Read Full Article)