Independent Media Center, Israel http://indymedia.org.il Turning the other cheek author: ct

Seems to me that many people only see two options: either "turning the other cheek" or becoming victimizers themselves. Yet there is (at least) a third option: saying in a loud and firm voice: "What you do is wrong. Stop doing it!" That's my preferred option. "Turning the other cheek" means not setting a limit to the other person, thereby inviting him to intensify his wrongdoing. That's exactly what Israel is suffering from and why its government and a big number of its citizens morally deteriorated so much: because - for various reasons - the international community refused and still refuses to tell them the magic words: "What you are doing is wrong. Stop it!"

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