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Dave, and RC,
author: kenny freeman
Dave, RC,
The grievances of the Palestinians were painfully obvious before the First Intafada.
For example, the Israeli denial that Arabs were forcibly removed form Israel. “They left to create a ‘free-fire zone’ so the Arab Armies could drive the Jews into the Sea.”
Then I met an Israeli security guard outside the U.S. Embassy. He told me that as a member of Hagannah, in 1948, he’d participated in the transport of Arab civilians from Lydda and Ramle to the West Bank.
I didn’t believe him. The next day he brought the photographs he’d taken of that operation…
I guess I was trying to say that the newspaper article about the rape/murder, which was all over other internet sites also, was ‘emotional,’ and that kind of incident just releases negative feelings, just like the Hebron massacres of 1929 gave Levinger the opportunity to return to Hebron with maximum hostility.
I wasn’t excusing the rapists at all. The article took the guilt all the way up IDF command, and into the Government, all the way to Ben-Gurion himself. That’s where I think the ‘moral confusion’ was relevant. The soldiers who participated were acting like animals. They were convicted and imprisoned, yes?
I don’t think there’s any justification for anyone to act contrary to Torah, Jewish Tradition, etc.
I do believe in turning the other cheek, have done so for a lifetime.
And I couldn’t agree more with RC: move on from trauma, searching for ‘positive thinking,’ find the Path, or it’s all over.
Is this an individual effort, or group? How do we find the Path?
Who will “stand upon my watch, And set me upon the tower, And will look out to see what He will speak by me, And what I shall answer when I am reproved…” (Habakkuk 2:1)
We’re all waiting….