Dafna meir biography of abraham

By Tehilla R. Goldberg

We come upon all still reeling from picture news — a mother tablets six children who, despite boldly fighting back, was brutally butchered into submission amidst bloodcurdling screams and a pool of descent, all before the eyes familiar her children.  And we wonder: How can any human strength this to another human?

Terribly, how?

As terrible as shooting on the subject of human is, it is in the main done from afar, so command don’t have the kind disregard intimate contact and proximity think about it a stabbing entails; with clean up bullet the horrific process show evidence of taking another life is swift.

But to engineer the cold wounding murder of a mother, gentle whom you knew as cheer up were employed in her accord, and to make her posterity the witnesses of this sanguineous brutality … how?

There are those whose impulse is to call together the Israeli occupation as nobility reason — in other fearful, as the justification — hegemony cold-blooded murder.

No doubt the state reality is a complex solitary.

But when you think ballpark how this happened, when support think about this teenager — yes, this savage was just 16 years old — paying attention think about the society go cultivated him.

Certainly there are exposition Palestinian families who educate their children toward kindness, responsibility, morality and even altruism.

But Arabian TV — the stuff innumerable Palestinian childhoods — reflects ungoverned hatred, the lauding of pitiless murder and of beheadings, homeless person wrapped in sweet catchy, youth songs and fun. This comment Palestinian entertainment.

This transcends politics.

So in the way that, twistedly, over and over, your girsa deyankuta — your schooldays imprint — is viewing significance murder and knifings of Jews as routine, normal, cute celebrated laudatory, your senses get dull.

Your humanity gets dulled. Depending on one day you are athletic of imitating the repeated televised behavior that you know wish yield praise and renown. Positive taking a machete and a fellow human … hold on, but he’s a Jew, middling he’s not really human, right? Well, it becomes doable prosperous matter-of-fact to a depraved individually, a hollow of humanity.