ALTERNATIVELY, DO WE MAKE HEROES OF Jews who tried to murder other Jews?
In Israel, the government does.
ISRAEL’S MAIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, formerly known as Lod was renamed by fiat, much as Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy by fiat. (Floridians loudly objected to renaming a cape that had been called “Canaveral” since explored by The Spanish a few hundred years ago and the name change was canceled.)
Lod is known to travel agents as “TLV” or Tel Aviv. OK, at least it’s in the same general area, albeit significantly closer to Lod.
While I take issue with suggesting that the airport is in, or adjacent to, Tel Aviv, I heartily object to the airport’s renaming. (Yes, I know here is nothing I can do to restore its original name or to change the name.)
It was during a “national unity government” with Shimon Peres, of Oslo Accord fame, representing the left that in 1978 Lod was renamed after Israel’s first prime minister.
- Wikipedia has a history of the airport’s several name changes at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Airport.
So what is my problem with the name.
What Jew would want to name an internationally known facility and gateway to Israel for a Jew who was willing to murder other Jews because of greed and political philosophy?
The answer is clearly stated at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-altalena-affair
The man in charge on the beach was none other than another “hero” who managed to get his name on a plaza in Tel Aviv.
The man for whom the airport currently is named also referred to another prime minister’s mentor as “Vladimir Hitler.” See http://tinyurl.com/y43lpqld and http://tinyurl.com/y4k8hmkm
During his party’s 53 year reign (1948-1971 and 1977 to 2001) the leftists managed a peace agreement with a second Arab neighbor (Jordan); this followed a peace pact under right-wing Likud’s leadership with Egypt.
Until Menachem Begin and the right-wing Likud, Israel suffered war after war and — despite controlling the national union — strike after strike. Likewise, under leftest Labor, the Israeli currency was devalued again and again.
Yet one leader of the leftist government has an airport named for him and another, the commander on the beach (ibid.) and participant in the failed Oslo Accords, has a Tel Aviv square named in his honor; he was assassinated by a religious extremist.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
