My apologies to Israel Harel

Ted Belman

In my recent post HAARETZ: The Wicked Scheme to Turn Israeli School Kids Into Jewish ISIS, Exposed, I took Harel to task for his “vitriolic” views. I shouldn’t have. He was being sarcastic.

I received this email:

What I want to stress is that Israel Harel is strongly in favor of building Jewish identity through this kind of educational program. It is not Israel Harel who is being “vitriolic.” Harel is sarcastically or ironically revealing to us the content of a Ha’aretz article in Hebrew. As I’m sure you know, unlike that article and the owners and key writers of Ha’aretz, Israel Harel (like Moshe Arens) is one of Ha’aretz’s voices from the right.

I suspected as much at the time, but nothing in the article suggested he was other than the fact that his statements were way over the top.

And yes, now that you mention it, I do recall him having sensible views.

Haaretz has gotten so bad that I believed that it and many of its readers would hold such views.