It is getting to the point where nary a day goes by without the non-elected justices of Israel’s politicized Supreme Court imposing their leftist bias on the rest of the country, all in the name of "judicial activism".

In the latest judicial atrocity, the Robed Rascals of the Court has issued a fatwa that Ehud Yatom be prohibited from serving as a public servant, the chief of the Prime Minister’s anti-terror Staff .

Let us explain. Ehud Yatom is an unsung Israel hero. Worse, he has for 16 years been the straw man victimized by Israel’s Caring Left.

Ehud Yatom was a very senior officer in Israel’s secret service. In April, 1984 four PLO terrorists hijacked a civilian bus headed from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon, Egged’s Bus 300. The bus was filled with women commuters, some pregnant. The four terrorists threatened to murder them all. The bus was stopped at a roadblock and an elite Israeli military unit stormed the bus, killing two of the hijackers on the spot and capturing two others. In the firefight, a teenage woman soldier in the bus was killed.

The Israeli military then issued a laconic statement that all four terrorists had been killed in the firefight. In fact two were left alive; they were conducted to a nearby field and then dispatched to the great peace process of the sky by the Israeli secret servicemen, led by Yatom. (Had they been left alive, they would doubtless have been released by the Israeli government in one of its "prisoner exchanges" with Ahmed Jibril or similar terror groups.)

A leftist photographer named Alex Lubek (today working for Haaretz) though snapped a photo of the two terrorhoids being led off, and then illegally published it, complete with the faces of two secret servicemen, despite orders by the military censor to refrain from publishing it (Israel still has on paper a military censor past whom all military matters must be run before being aired in the media).

Yatom should have been proclaimed a hero for dispatching the two remaining terrorists. After all, they had been threatening to kill the entire bus full of women and as a result of their antics, one woman was dead (and I believe another miscarried). Moreover, by summarily executing them, Israel was saying that terrorists who hijack buses of women are deserving of neither a criminal trial with due process nor "rights" as military prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. They are nothing but human garbage. They are deserving of the same treatment as the al-Qaeda terrorists holed up in the prison in Mazar a-Sharif in Afghanistan.

But the Israeli Left has always insisted that Arab terrorists are entitled to more rights than their Jewish victims. The same mindset of the Left that STILL pays survivor pensions to the widows and orphans of Arab suicide bombers who perpetrate mass murders of Jews intervened in the Yatom case. Yatom became the bogeyman of the Israeli Left, the man the Recreational Compassion Lobby most loved to hate. They insisted he be put on show trial for "murder" - of the captured terrorists. Making about as much sense as trying Bush for the deaths of the Mazar a-SHarif prisoners.

In 1986, Shimon Peres was acting Prime Minister in a national unity government with Yitzhak Shamir of the Likud as his sidekick and Foreign Minister. Already gearing up emotionally for his debut as Israel’s Oslo Neville Chamberlain, Peres insisted that Yatom and his staff be indicted for the "killings" (in fact, for the litter removal) from Bus 300. The entire matter became known as the "Bus 300 Affair" and featured prominently on all PLO and Israel-bashing web sites around the planet, those trying to prove how inhumane and savage Israel was. Beating to death two handcuffed terrorist murderers, tch tch tch. A commission of inquiry "investigated" the matter, and it included Peres’ leftist buddy Yossi Ginossar, currently a partner and co-owner in the PLO’s casino in Jericho.

In any case, before the show trial played itself out in its entirety, the President at the time, Chaim Herzog, granted blanket immunity to all those involved in the matter, including the hero Yatom. The Left ground its teeth, soiled its nappies, and ran to the Supreme Court, but the Court would not override Herzog, one of the last non-lemmings to be among the Labor Party leaders of the 1980s.

The hero Yatom then joined the Likud and became politically active. In 1998, Netanyahu tried to appoint him as the security officer of the Knesset Building, but the McCarthyist Leftist Attorney General, Eliakim Rubinstein, warned he would oppose the appointment in court. The Chairman of the Knesset at the time was Likud’s High School Don (Don Tichon) and he weenied out and capitulated.

Now let us note that Yatom was never indicted of any crime and was granted blanket Presidential clemency by a Labor Party Presidential appointee for any "crime" that might have taken place.

So let us sum things up. The very same Left that has murdered nearly 700 innocent Jews through its imposition of Oslo on the country still regards the hero Ehud Yatom as a criminal for possibly executing two guilty Palestinian murderers.

Led by Uberlemming Yossi Sarid, the Left petitioned the Supreme Court to block Yatom’s appointment by Sharon as head of his anti-terror team. The Left would prefer that Uri Avnery head it up or perhaps Azmi Bashara. I mean, come on, we sure don’t want the anti-terror staff headed up by someone who knows how to KILL terrorists, do we?

The politicized Supreme Court of Mister Judicial Activism Aharon Barak yesterday agreed and issued a fatwa prohibiting the appointment.

As you know, Aharon Barak and his team of leftist justices have been leading a campaign to PREVENT the creation of a "Constitutional Court" that could, among other things, override the politicized and arbitrary decisions-on-whim of the robed gang of rascals currently holding the country hostage from Israel’s Supreme Court bench.

I can think of no better reason why such a Court should be created.

Steven Plaut

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