WHO are these judges? .... the judges, that's who: SHLOMO AVINERI, ELLA BALFER AND AVRAHAM BRICHTA. Who is guilty of INCITEMENT TO GENOCIDE? HAARETZ, STERNHELL, and THE THREE just mentioned.

This year's Israel Prize in political science will be awarded to Prof. Ze'ev Sternhell of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Education Minister Yuli Tamir announced Thursday.

The judges described Sternhell as "one of the leading scholars in the field of political thought in Israel and the world."

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e is a regular contributor to the opinion pages of Haaretz. Sternhell expressed delight at his selection, saying: "This is an award for decades of scientific work."

The committee members, Professors Shlomo Avineri, Ella Balfer and Avraham Brichta,

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Can it get any worse?

 

Israel Prize to go to Pro-Terror, Pro-Civil War Prof.

by Gil Ronen

This year's Israel Prize in political science will be awarded to Prof. Ze'ev Sternhell of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Education Minister Yuli Tamir announced Thursday. Sternhell has called for use of IDF tanks against Jews living in Judea and Samaria, and encouraged Arab terror attacks on the Jews living outside Israel's pre-1967 borders.

Sternhell wrote in the Davar newspaper in 1988: "In the end we will have to use force against the settlers in Ofra or Elon Moreh. Only he who is willing to storm Ofra with tanks will be able to block the fascist danger threatening to drown Israeli democracy."

In the Haaretz newspaper, in 2001, Sternhell said: "There is no doubt about the legitimacy of [Palestinian] armed resistance in the territories themselves. If the Palestinians had a little sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the settlements… and refrain from planting bombs west of the Green Line."

The judges described Sternhell as "one of the leading scholars in the field of political thought in Israel and the world."

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