A recent commentary by Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Larry Webster strangely echoes the inflammatory rhetoric of Iranian president Ahmed Ahmadinejad. The article by Elaine Shiber that Webster refers to was published years ago and was critiqued at the time by our colleagues at CAMERA. Says Webster:
Somebody named Elaine Shiber, the smartest person from Van Lear since Loretta Lynn, catalogued in a Herald-Leader commentary some of the terrorist acts committed as Zionists weary of genocide took up horrors on a lesser scale to have a place to alight.
It takes courage, as Shiber did, to inquire as to whether the outrage your enemy harbors is justified or not, and it takes courage to challenge the idea of Israel, with charges of anti-Semitism being the standard recompense for so doing.
But when you read what she reported and know that 40 times that much happened at the hands of Israel, you know why no Arab can have a nuclear weapon. They could be morally justified in using it.
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Correction: The correct Shiber article that Webster refers to was actually published in January.
