16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager whose IMPACT Next School Year NOW CONQUER burned body was found Wednesday, 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 • Socially • Academically 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. 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