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Abu Khdeir, Murdered Palestinian Boy Was Forced to Drink Gasoline, Then Burned to Death Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
Haaretz article confirms ghoulish murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir
With each day that goes by the murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir becomes ever more bestial. Haaretz reports (Hebrew print edition only so far) that before he was burned to death he was doused with gasoline and forced to drink the fluid. No doubt, the killers wanted him to burn from the outside and inside:
A rabbi in a settlement in Samaria has even spoken for hanging the suspects for their crime. But that avoids the real heart of the problem: punishment isn’t the answer. Solving the root causes of the conflict with justice and compromise from both sides. That’s the way to end this insanity. Unfortunately, Israel and Palestine have become places that Martin Luther King said are blind and toothless: “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
Let us not allow Israel to get itself off the hook with pious platitudes and denunciations of the crime. That does not absolve them of guilt. This is a crime of the entire nation. Not just the lunatic killers. The entire nation should do teshuvah for this horrific act. If there isn’t massive soul-searching it will only confirm the inhumanity of both the nation and the Zionist nationalism on which it was founded.
I wrote a post two days ago that suggested that Abu Khdeir’s death was a martyrdom. He is a shahid (in Hebrew, a korban-literally “sacrifice”) in the finest sense of the term. No matter how scared and beaten down he was, his suffering makes him and his cause noble. His immolation purifies his soul and blackens those of his killers. There is only one way to understand this horrific crime. If we choose to see it in the terms his killers wanted, then we give them a moral victory. I will deny them that at all costs.
Haaretz article confirms ghoulish murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir
With each day that goes by the murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir becomes ever more bestial. Haaretz reports (Hebrew print edition only so far) that before he was burned to death he was doused with gasoline and forced to drink the fluid. No doubt, the killers wanted him to burn from the outside and inside:
A rabbi in a settlement in Samaria has even spoken for hanging the suspects for their crime. But that avoids the real heart of the problem: punishment isn’t the answer. Solving the root causes of the conflict with justice and compromise from both sides. That’s the way to end this insanity. Unfortunately, Israel and Palestine have become places that Martin Luther King said are blind and toothless: “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
Let us not allow Israel to get itself off the hook with pious platitudes and denunciations of the crime. That does not absolve them of guilt. This is a crime of the entire nation. Not just the lunatic killers. The entire nation should do teshuvah for this horrific act. If there isn’t massive soul-searching it will only confirm the inhumanity of both the nation and the Zionist nationalism on which it was founded.
I wrote a post two days ago that suggested that Abu Khdeir’s death was a martyrdom. He is a shahid (in Hebrew, a korban-literally “sacrifice”) in the finest sense of the term. No matter how scared and beaten down he was, his suffering makes him and his cause noble. His immolation purifies his soul and blackens those of his killers. There is only one way to understand this horrific crime. If we choose to see it in the terms his killers wanted, then we give them a moral victory. I will deny them that at all costs.
