Sirhan's Brother Mailed Death Threats? Served Time? Ed Forum?

[Benjamin Cole]

Another of Sirhan’s brothers was later convicted by a federal court for writing letters to Israeli PM Golda Meir, threatening to assassinate her.--Lori Spencer.

Spencer is an authority on the RFK assassination.

She posted this on "X," and I had never heard about it.

AI version:

Sharif Bishara Sirhan, the older brother of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, was convicted in a federal court in June 1973 for mailing a letter threatening to shoot and kill Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. He was accused of sending the threat to Secretary of State William P. Rogers, in which he called Meir a "dead conscience" and claimed she would be killed by March 1. Following his conviction, Sharif Sirhan was sentenced to six months in jail.

In addition, Sirhan's older brother purchased for Sirhan the handgun with which he murdered RFK. I am not sure if Sharif was the older brother who purchased the gun, or another brother.

PS: You will never read this in the Education Forum. Maybe now that William Niedernut has been neutered, but not before.

Some regard Sirhan, who was valorized all over the Middle East after murdering RFK (not in Israel, obviously) as an early Palestinian terrorist.

[Lance Payette]

Donald Jeffries, whom I know nothing about, seems to have picked up the anti-Jewish flag over there.

[John Corbett]

Donald Jeffries, whom I know nothing about, seems to have picked up the anti-Jewish flag over there.

There isn't much good I can say about Gavin Newsom but I most definitely give him credit for one thing. He overrode the recommendation of his own parole board that Sirhan should be granted parole. Sirhan should die in prison for what he did. I wish he had died in the California gas chamber 50 years ago but SCOTUS screwed that up. If he lives to be 100, I hope he is NEVER granted parole.

CORRECTION: I just read that Sirhan's death sentence was commuted by the California Supreme Court in 1972 when it ruled capital punishment violated the state constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later that year, SCOTUS ruled all current death penalty statute's were unconstitutional but stopped short of saying capital punishment was unconstitutional, opening the door for revised death penalty statutes that met guidelines set out in their ruling. 

[Benjamin Cole]

Donald Jeffries, along with James DiEugenio, now suffers from Israel Derangement Syndrome (IDS).

These guys actually want Putin and the IRGC to prevail.

I understand the US is not perfect, and that US wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan were horrible follies, doomed to failure. The US, like every democracy, is a flawed nation. As with Israel.

But the IRGC and Putin are giving the Nazis and Mao a run for the money as all-time uglies.

I know which side I am on.