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Why Is The House
Still Standing?
DR. SCOTT DEITCHMAN
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH TIMES
I
recently learned that I may
travel to Israel in the next few
months, and I'm excited about
the prospect of my first visit.
My last attempted visit was a
Federation mission in 1990, but
Saddam Hussein cost me the trip
— the mission was canceled
when gas masks were handed
out in Jerusalem.
At last, I have a second chance.
Since hearing the news, I've been
perusing travel books and lan-
guage tapes. I'm compiling my
list of people to call and places to
see. In planning my trip, I've be-
gun to wonder if tourist itiner-
aries now include a look at the
home of the family of Yigal Amir.
If I see it, I will ask my guide
"Why is the house still standing?"
After all, though Mr. Amir's
family knew how he felt about
Rabin, they didn't turn him in to
the security services before he
could act. Now the family seems
unrepentant of his confessed
crime. On the day Mr. Amir's tri-
al was postponed, his mother was
quoted as recanting her previous
disownership of her son. More-
over, Mr. Amir's sister said that
"he was the only one who had
courage" — that hardly seems re-
pentant or apologetic to me. So
shouldn't their home be leveled
to make an example of them, and
thereby to discourage other
would-be assassins? Had a Pales-
tinian killed Rabin, his family's
home would have been bulldozed;
the same actions have been tak-
en against Palestinian terrorists'
families in the past.
I'd also like to see the rooms
where the police "interrogated"
people like Rabbi Nachum Rabi-
novich of Ma'aleh Adumim. Rab-
bi Rabinovich was suspected of
making a halachic argument to
justify killing Rabin. The press
reports that he still denies in-
volvement, and I wonder how the
police can be certain of his ve-
racity. Did they beat the rabbi to
extract any possible confession?
After all, if Rabin's murder
doesn't justify applying a little
physical coercion to encourage
a suspect to talk, what does? Had
the assassin or suspected ac-
complices been Palestinian, such
treatment would doubtless have
been used in the investigation —
it has been so in the past, and this
"justifiable force" has been offi-
cially sanctioned.
Let me quickly state that I em-
phatically do not believe that the
Amir family home should be bull-
dozed, or that Rabbi Rabinovich
Dr. Scott Deitchman, an
occupational health physician,
writes from Atlanta.