Israel’s Supreme Court heard an interesting case yesterday. It was
Arik Sharon’s appeal against a lower court decision that nixed his attempt
to sue Haaretz for libel. In a campaign similar to his successful suit
against Time slime magazine, Sharon sued Haaretz because of a nasty piece
written in 1991 by Uberleftist Uzi Benzamin, claiming Sharon had lied to
Begin during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
The lower court had found that Benzamin had lied himself silly but that
his comments were made about a public figure and "without deliberate
malice" and so were protected speech. Yesterday Israel’s politicized
leftist Supreme Court agreed, and declared that Benzamin’s libels were all
made "in good faith and without malice," and so were protected speech. The
Haaretz editorial hails this court decision as a great victory for free
speech, this exactly 48 hours after the same editorial came out and
demanded that all free speech in Israel be suppressed for those with whom
Haaretz disagrees.
Now you realize what all this means? The court has declared that
Benzamin’s piece was written in good faith and without malice, and that
means his piece must be the ONLY such article written without malice and
in good faith in the entire history of the newspaper!!
The Eurotrash in the EU are all attacking the Czech Prime Minister
today for his having had the nerve to tell the truth and compare Arafat to
Hitler. So it might be a good time to buy some products made in the
Czech Republic, plan a trip to Prague, send an email, and otherwise let
the Czechs know that WE do not consider them a nasty distant little
country about which we know little.