"Seminary Student" Recollections
To The Dallas Morning News , Sept. 28, 1997 (as submitted).
Regarding the article in The Dallas Morning News of Sept. 20, 1997, reporting that illegal Jewish settlers moved out of a house in Arab East Jerusalem but that "10 Jewish seminary students were allowed to stay on as security guards and workers":
I was reminded of another "seminary student," Eli Hazeev, whose Christian birth name was Eli Mahon, Jr. He was known in the U.S. Viper gang as "Crazy Jim." After he murdered a Viper in 1970, he didn't go to prison but instead went to Israel in 1974. He changed his name to Hazeev and was known as "The Wolf." (Washington Post, 5/7/80; New York Times, 5/8/80; Christian Science Monitor, 5/13/80).
He lived at Kiryat Arba, joined the Israeli army as a sniper, and served in the illegal invasion of Lebanon in 1978. He was known to "stalk Arab neighborhoods looking for victims." He was with a group of Israeli terrorists who broke into Arab homes, beat up innocent citizens and smashed furniture, ordering the Palestinians to leave their homes and nation. Israelis said that what this "religious student" did was "a great thing."
In 1980, Hazeev/Mahon, carrying an M-16 rifle, was killed in a shoot-out on Arab land. His father, retired U.S. Air Force Col. James E. Mahon, came to Israel for his funeral. His mother said that he was "dead wrong."
One can only wonder how many of those "10 seminary students" are in fact American terrorists doing Israeli dirty work!
Virginia L. Oldham, Dallas, TX
Christian Science Monitor Article May 1980
Christian Science Monitor Commentary May 1980
Letter from reader of Washington Report of Middle East affairs September 1997
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