A brilliantly written article...
Uzi Benziman of Haaretz has written a most eloquent article regarding the failure of the right-wing leadership to rein in the extremists in its midst. While the leadership is to be complimented for its quick condemnation of the recent terror attack in Shfaram last week, they must also do more to root out these fanatics. To not take action would most certainly be detrimental to the settler movement, as it will be forced to prove its legitimacy in the wake of such actions perpetrated in their name.
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I was addened to read in your comment to Sarah's post that you had lost a child to illness. I, too, am part of that "exclusive" club to which no one wants to belong, having lost my daughter to leukemia four and a half years ago.
I absolutely agree, of course, that no political or other statement is worth the risk of losing a child. As you must know, though, people who have not gone through that most horrible of experiences haven't a clue as to what it really means. (I say this not to excuse the people that do this, but to identify with your comment.) If there were some way of letting other people understand without their having to actually go through the loss, perhaps they would be slightly less cavalier about endangering their own children - and perhaps even other people's children! - by sending them to war, for example. And then perhaps the world would probably be a better place.
May Heaven comfort you.
Sara
Sara,
I wouldn't wish what he have been through on anyone. There can be no worse tragedy than to lose one's child. I think it is sad when people allow their ideologies and beliefs to become so all-consuming that they lose sight of that which should come ahead of everything else - the children.
Just a comment: neither the book "I believe..." nor the Saturday Review article ever existed. There seems to have been much discussion about it, but it doesn't appear to be authentic.
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