16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir,
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July 2, in the Jerusalem Forest
those arguments don't help us. Those
are not arguments that are going to save
our society.
We need to face up to the fact that
our ongoing rule over the Palestinians,
apart from endangering Israel as a
Jewish democracy, is corroding us,
blackening our hearts. We cannot
impose peace deals upon neighbors
who oppose the compromises essential
to our secure existence, but we have to
do more to try to create an environ-
ment in which progress can be made
— an enlightened environment, that
is, on both sides of the divide. All too
plainly, we are being affected by living
in a region where indifference to the
divine gift of life is widespread. If the
Jewish state, the homeland of the Jewish
nation, does not thoroughly emblemize
a reverence for life, we have no particu-
lar right to be here at all.
We are being dragged down, and the
footage of Border Police thugs appar-
ently beating Abu Khdeir's cousin
underlines the depths to which we risk
sinking. Maybe Tariq Abu Khdeir had
been involved in violent demonstra-
tions against Israeli forces, though he
denies it. Maybe he resisted arrest and
was carrying a slingshot, as the police
have claimed. And maybe the video
footage of his beating was tendentiously
edited. But that footage seemed to show
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a suspect who posed no threat being
pummeled and kicked mercilessly by
uniformed Israeli forces. The authori-
ties would be better off not attempting
excuses and tackling the untenable cul-
ture in their ranks.
We can try to comfort ourselves by
claiming that our thugs and killers are
aberrations, reviled by the mainstream,
while their thugs and killers are widely
exalted heroes. But our aberrations
are multiplying — our killers and our
thugs, our Jewish terror groups and
our uniformed assailants. And unlike
the Palestinians, we cannot claim the
"occupation" in our defense — for we
are masters of our own destiny, and
we must urgently reassert our higher
values.
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Dr. Richard Krugel, president of the
Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit, said:
"We are shocked and saddened by
the arrests of Jewish suspects in the
brutal murder of Palestinian teenager
Muhammed Abu Kdeir. There is no
justification, certainly not revenge,
for this despicable act. We condemn
it and declare it a hillul hashem — a
desecration of God's name.
"We join with Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu's call for swift
justice under Israel's judiciary and
have full confidence that the perpe-
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2008-9's Operation Cast Lead, with the
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due to the fact that this time Israel was
dragged into the latest escalation and
did not start it.
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carefully is that it signals to the other
side, in Gaza, that Israel is very wary
about fighting.
Hamas is holding back for the time
being on launching rockets toward the
Dan region, on the assumption that
there are a number of steps that both
sides would have to take first. One can
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