It's the incitement, stupid!
Almost nobody, no matter how flawed, how skewed, how filled with hatred, sinks so low as to take a life in cold blood.
Hussein Rawarda sank that low on Wednesday morning. He deliberately ended the short life of a young man about whom he knew nothing, who had never done him any harm, who he happened to find sitting next to him on a bus. Killed Eden Atias as he slept the sleep of the innocent. Killed him because he was an Israeli, because he was wearing the uniform of the Israel Defense Forces. Killed him because the opportunity to kill him presented itself. Hussein Rawarda killed Eden Atias because he was so consumed with hatred for this sleeping man-child that none of those last human failsafes, those final limits that protect us from shedding the last traits of our humanity, none of those could compete with his cold insistence on taking that life.
However badly the world treats people, however bitter their experiences, and however hopeless the future may appear, they simply don’t do what Hussein Rawarda did to Eden Atias on Wednesday morning. Only the most foul of indoctrinations, only the most relentless of inculcations, can produce the kind of evil on which he acted.
Only a human being who has existed solely in a climate of unflinching hatred, an atmosphere in which no hint of light has been allowed to enter, can manufacture so dark an act. It is in that climate, that atmosphere, we can only conclude, that Wednesday’s murderer has spent his 16 formative years in the West Bank.
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Seven years or so ago, I heard David Horovitz speak at a synagogue outside Boston. After the program ended, I went up and introduced myself. He was already familiar with my blog. I told him that I had no hope that there would ever be peace with the 'Palestinians.' He told me that he could not live in Israel if he felt like I feel. I wonder if he's still hopeful.But the insistent approach of the international community, as emblemized currently by the stance of Secretary of State John Kerry, is to focus almost exclusively on the imperative to tackle the problematics of the settlement enterprise, while doing next-to-nothing to tackle the carefully cultivated, pervasive negation of Israel’s legitimacy among Palestinians. And that approach constitutes an absolute guarantee that peace efforts will never succeed.
Labels: Palestinian incitement, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:25 AM
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There have been a number of internet posts over the past few months about young black males in the U.S. playing the "game" of "knockout" - whereby a young "African American" in a gang of several others randomly attacks a white male, trying to render the white unconscious with one blow. Murders have resulted. Jews seem particularly, though hardly exclusively, to be targeted. Obama has tacitly given his permission, even encouragement for such assaults, as blacks are now judged incapable of racism in the U.S. and Jews are rendered "less than" by dint of the administration's behavior towards Israel.
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