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Recent Terrorist Attacks
Prompt A Call To Arms

LARRY DERFNER SRAEL CORRESPONDENT

n the ride over to the
courthouse for the bail
hearing of West Bank
settler Yoram Skolnik,
the cab driver told me it was
good that I was going to
demonstrate for the defen-
dant, who, after all, had killed
a terrorist.
I told the driver I wasn't a
demonstrator but a journal-
ist, and asked him if it was
right to shoot a terrorist in
the back seven times when
he's lying face-down on the
ground, blindfolded, his
hands and feet tied, like the
police say Mr. Skolnik did at
the settlement of Sussia on
March 23? "Okay, that's not
right, you can't kill someone
who's bound hand and foot,"
said the driver. Well, there
you go, I said. "He was stu-
pid," the driver continued.
"He should have untied him
and then shot him, and then
nobody would have known,
and nobody would be talking
about it." Kill him even after
he's captured? I asked. "Every
terrorist has to be killed," he
said.
It turned out that the dri-
ver, Shlomo Levy, a husky,
friendly guy of about 50, had
voted for the Labor Party in
the last election, after having
previously supported the
Likud. He switched to Labor
because there had been so
much terrorism under the
Likud, and the economy had
been so bad. Now he didn't
know whom to support. "This
government is a terrible dis-
appointment," he said.
What is the political signif-
icance of Shlomo Levy's
views? It's difficult to say but
many Israelis think Mr. Skol-
nik was justified, and his sup-
port is not just coming from
settlers.
As for the cab driver's sour-
ing on Labor after having
soured on the Likud, here
Shlomo Levy is clearly part of
a large movement. A public-
opinion survey by Dr. Mina
Tsemach, Israel's best-known
pollster, gave evidence to back
up what just about everybody
here knows intuitively: that
if elections were held today,
the right-wing and religious
parties would return to pow-
er by a wide majority.
Labor, which got 44 Knes-
set seats to the Likud's 32 in
the June election, would to-
day lose to the Likud, 39-37,

0

Dr. Tsemach found. And the
poll was taken a few day be-
fore Bibi Netanyahu swept
the Likud primaries; since
then, Mr. Netanyahu has the
increased stature of a land-
slide winner, and a few more
Jews have been stabbed. A
new poll might well show an
even larger Likud margin.
With 14 terror killings of
Jews in March, and many
more non- fatal attacks, the
atmosphere has been filled
with calls to arms.
Outgoing police chief
Ya'acov Terrier urged Israelis
with licensed guns to carry
them at all times. Prime Min-
ister Rabin said Israelis
should once again become "a
fighting people." Likud MK
Limor Livnat said the only
answer to terrorists was "a
bullet in the head."
Yoram Skolnik's attorney,
former right-wing MK Elya-
kim Ha'etzni, said his client,
a 24-year-old bus driver and
one-time yeshiva student, was
under the influence of these
kinds of statements when he
jumped down from his
minibus that morning and
fired his Uzi into Moussa Abu
Sabha. Abu Sabha was a Fa-
tah man wanted for throwing
stones and Molotov cocktails
at soldiers. He came to the
settlement of Sussia that
morning and stabbed a settler
in the shoulder. After he was
tied up, other settlers found
he had a grenade attached to
his belt and took it away from
him. Mr. Skolnik claims he
thought Abu Sabha still had
the grenade on him and killed
the bound, blindfolded ter-
rorist to prevent him trying
to use it. Police say Mr. Skol-
nik told them, "I shot him to
teach the Arabs a lesson." Mr.
Skolnik now says he doesn't
remember saying this.
"My client is a victim of
Arab terror and of this gov-
ernment's criminal policies,"
Mr. Ha'etzni said after the
bail hearing, at which Mr.
Skolnik got 10 more days in
jail, while police continue
their investigation. The at-
torney compared Mr. Skolnik,
who went on a hunger strike
after his arrest, to European
Jewish partisans who assas-
sinated ex-Nazis after World
War II. "They broke the law,
but the Jewish community
saw them as heroes. (Like
them), Skolnik has very wide

support." he said. Is it righ
to kill someone, even a ter
rorist, after the fact, when h
is helpless? I asked Mr. Ha'et-
zni. "The legal technicalities
don't interest the Israeli m
in the street," he said.
Outside the courthouse,
demonstrators held a sign
that read, "They mustn't b
allowed to get out alive —
Shamir, Raful." This was a
paraphrase of up-to-the-
minute statements by forme
Prime Minister Yitzhak Sha-
mir, and MK Rafael "Raful"
Eitan, head of the right-wing
Tsomet party, on how to deal
with terrorists.
After Mr. Skolnik made the
headlines, congratulations
came in from a number of
right-wing leaders. Rabbi
Yosef Ba-Gad, an MK with
the Moledet party, said, "They
should give him a medal."
Likud MK Yehoshua Matza
reportedly said it was a
blessed deed Mr. Skolnik had
done.
Mr. Shamir, in an inter-
view with the Yediot Aharo-

Is it right to shoot
a terrorist in the
back?

not daily, reacted to the
Skolnik affair this way: "Since
the stabbing attacks began,
everyone in Israel is pained
not only because of the lives
that are lost to the terrorists,
but also because of the fact
that these murderers, whose
baseness has no parallel,
walk away unharmed. When
I asked the public a few
months ago to make sure that
these murderers do not get
out alive, people attacked me
and asked how I could say
such things. Today we hear
similar things from the police
chief and the prime minister.
The murderers should know
that whoever comes to take
human life must pay with his
life."
Demonstrators at the cour-
thouse were also quoting the
prime minister and the police
chief in defense of Mr. Skol-
nik. Mr. Rabin and Mr. Ter-
ner, seeing that they were

being misunderstood or dis-
torted, hurried to condemn
the shooting at Sussia, with
Mr. Rabin calling such an act
"immoral." ❑

