April 16, 2008, - 4:16 pm By Debbie Schlussel A year ago, today,
a crazed killer terrorized students and faculty at Virginia
Tech. While several were murdered, one of the murdered gave his
life to save many others. That man was the brave
American/Israeli Jew, Dr. Liviu Librescu, Blessed Be His Memory.
This brilliant scientist, Holocaust survivor, and survivor of
Communist tyranny, died so that others–22 others!–would live. I
remember how proud my late father–knowing he was dying of
cancer–was of Dr. Librescu’s heroic final act. The stereotype is
that Jews are weak people, but Dr. Librescu betrayed that image.
Alas, my father sarcastically said he was waiting for Steven
Spielberg to do a movie defaming Dr. Librescu and glorifying Cho
Seung Hui, as he did the same with innocent Israeli athletes and
Palestinian terrorists in “Munich,” the propaganda fiction movie
parading as history. As my dad noted, the scene was the same:
Dr. Librescu was like the brave Israeli Olympic team coach in
trying to hold the door shu