For a civil society to maintain its civility we must be clear on what human actions can be accepted as defensible or purely acts of evil.
This brutal assassination of a Jewish mother and her 2 teenage children slain by a cold-blooded terrorist is repulsive. Also is the killing this past weekend of 36 yr. old Alessandro Parini, an Italian tourist. Alessandro was taking an evening stroll with friends on a Tel Aviv beach promenade when an Israeli Arab decided to cross the median and ram his vehicle into a crowd of people killing Alessandro. Several of Alessandro’s friends were also seriously injured when the vehicle struck.
The deficiency of broad and unequivocal condemnations of such acts of evil are deeply disturbing. Calls by western governments for both sides to end the “deadly cycle of violence” speaks to a moral equivalency. Problem is when one side openly celebrates the murder of civilians by passing out sweets to children in the streets and calling the killers of innocent woman and children “heroic fighters” there is simply no morality.
If these facts on the ground continue to be mostly “unobserved” by the media and the western government benefactors who continue to generously fund the inciting and ruling Palestinian Authority sadly little will change.
Your article is a clarion call out in reference to the famous quote by Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
For a civil society to maintain its civility we must be clear on what human actions can be accepted as defensible or purely acts of evil.
This brutal assassination of a Jewish mother and her 2 teenage children slain by a cold-blooded terrorist is repulsive. Also is the killing this past weekend of 36 yr. old Alessandro Parini, an Italian tourist. Alessandro was taking an evening stroll with friends on a Tel Aviv beach promenade when an Israeli Arab decided to cross the median and ram his vehicle into a crowd of people killing Alessandro. Several of Alessandro’s friends were also seriously injured when the vehicle struck.
The deficiency of broad and unequivocal condemnations of such acts of evil are deeply disturbing. Calls by western governments for both sides to end the “deadly cycle of violence” speaks to a moral equivalency. Problem is when one side openly celebrates the murder of civilians by passing out sweets to children in the streets and calling the killers of innocent woman and children “heroic fighters” there is simply no morality.
If these facts on the ground continue to be mostly “unobserved” by the media and the western government benefactors who continue to generously fund the inciting and ruling Palestinian Authority sadly little will change.
Your article is a clarion call out in reference to the famous quote by Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
Thank you, Pieter, for sharing your perspective.
You have made this tragedy feel personally relevant to me. Thank you for that. Though I am left deeply sad.