tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post3465950677139742948..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: On the Murders of Babies – and Double StandardsDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-48147614925072483802011-03-15T07:46:53.659+11:002011-03-15T07:46:53.659+11:00This blog by a UK Methodist minister is a deplorab...This blog by a UK Methodist minister is a deplorable example of its kind:<br />Death and dishonour on the West Bank<br />by Richard on March 14, 2011<br />The brutal murder at the weekend of 5 members of the Fogel family, settlers living in the community of Itamar on the West Bank, is mind-numbing in its cruelty. Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their children were attacked while they were asleep in an act of such savage cowardice it is hard to conceive. There can be no justification for violence of this kind. It serves no cause that might be called just. <br />Their murders are being put to most cynical use. Photographs of the Fogels’ bloody bodies lying where they died have been released to the internet, provoking outrage and revulsion, as any such act should. Unfortunately, much of the reaction has gone beyond revulsion at the killings and has become an outpouring of hatred not merely towards the individuals who carried out this dreadful crime but also towards the community from which they are presumed to have come. Israeli Minister of Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein said on Sunday, “Only these ghastly images can show the world what and who the State of Israel has to deal with,” and many bloggers have been even more strident. This message is reprehensible and dishonouring to the Fogels, feeding as it does the racist lie of uniquely Arab savagery.<br />Sadly, the bitter truth is that these deaths do not change anything. If the settlements were illegal before , they remain so now. And while this killing is shocking, it is not unique. It stands as one more link in a chain of violence and injustice which has been forged in this conflict for generations.<br />How many more?<br />Read more: http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=9919#comments#ixzz1GboO5g2hDaphne Ansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-3629173414996763792011-03-15T06:02:42.377+11:002011-03-15T06:02:42.377+11:00http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/1...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142862Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com