About the treasure of life – sense of the terrible murders in Washington, DC

This terrible murder of two young Israeli embassy officials, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. I think is one of these moments when it is important to speak certain complementary truths, truths that are separated by “and” and not by “but”.

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But also to say them in the right moral order. And the first, most fundamental, primary thing to say is that this murder was fundamentally wrong. It was not fundamentally wrong because the Palestinian thing gives it back, even though it returns the Palestinian cause. It is incredibly self -destructive and self -destructive if you worry about Palestinian life in Gaza Strip and beyond because it is a conversation that grows to limit the unconditional support for Israel that leads to the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip. This has now been put in the shade by the discussion about this murder. From a tactical, strategic point of view, this was incredibly self -destructors and destructive for people who are interested in Palestinian rights, but that’s not the reason why this was so wrong. It is wrong because Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim’s life are infinitely precious and their life to take a terrible, terrible crime and atrocity.

According to international law, if they are occupied and attacked by soldiers, whether they are in Ukraine or in West Bank or somewhere else in the world, they have the right to defend themselves. But that is basically different from the street in Washington, DC, and kills two civilian employees of the Israeli embassy. And this distinction is really, very important to me.

I think when people use phrases like “Globalize the Intifada”, whether they recognize it or not, they are deliberately ambiguously in ambiguous about the legitimacy of violence against Israeli civilians, because while the first intifada was largely violent, the second intifada took part a lot of violence, including Israeli civilians. So if you use a phrase like “globalized the intifada”, do not make a clear decision about whether you see a moral distinction between these two different things, which is a really decisive moral distinction and a legal distinction under international law.

Obviously, I do not believe that people who sing “the intifada” should be arrested or suspended or excluded by universities. I don’t think your organizations should be closed because I believe in the right of freedom of speech. Just as I would defend the right to freedom of speech of a pro-Israeli group that made chants that could be interpreted as the support of violence against Palestinian civilians, such as the singing “Israel has the right to defend ourselves” or “We support the IDF”. These could also be interpreted as statements that support violence against Palestinians. I would defend people’s right to make these statements, just as we would defend the right of people, “globalize the intifada”.

But because they have the right to say, it doesn’t mean that I think it is morally the right one. I think it is much better to try to find out about the Palestinian rights in order to fight for their freedom that is ethical and how ethical are ways that are neither in Israel, Palestine or Washington, DC, Israeli civilians.

The second thing you should say about this murder is that he is associated with violence in Israel and Palestine, and the terrible, terrible slaughter and hunger that happens in Gaza to determine that there is a connection. This is not to be justified in any way. In order to have a thoughtful, valuable conversation about so many different political events, you have to be able to distinguish between justification and understanding and explanation, right? This is a distinction that Martin Luther King made again and again when he tried to describe the violence that emerged from black districts in the American cities in the 1960s. He refused. He rejected violence. Basically. But he also asked the Americans to understand that there was a associated system of violence. Interestingly, one of the people who have made this point after this terrible murder in Washington, DC, is the point, Israeli, center-link leader and former General Yair Golan, who said that Benjamin Netanyah’s policy “is driving anti-Semitism and hatred against Israel”. Now Golan in no way justified the murder of Lischinsky and Milgrim in a million years, but he noticed that it was a connection between what Israel does and what this murderer in Washington, DC, did.

If you turned this into a different context from the context of Israel-Palestinas, we would immediately recognize this. Let us imagine that a supporter of the Ukrainian thing had walked along the street in Washington and two Russian employees killed. This attack, this murder, would have been morally wrong, but we would also recognize that it would be quite undisputed that if this person had singed, “free Ukraine” that they have been on the right, right, right, right, right? We would see the networking without justifying what this person did. And I think we also have to think about it, namely to return to Martin Luther King, who spoke famous about the inevitable network of reciprocity in which white Americans and black Americans lived.

Israeli Jews and to a certain extent Jews beyond Israel live in an inevitable network of mutuality and a single fate with Palestinians. Because of the nature of life in Israel and Palestine. The path to protect everyone is to respect the infinite treasure and the value of the entire human life. It is so important to say the names of Lischinsky and Milgrim to honor their lives and the value of their lives. But it is also so important to be the Palestinians who are killed every day in Gaza, whose life is also equally, infinitely precious and is often never called, in complete darkness, as if their life does not matter.

And these two things have connected. The more we honor and defend life, the right to the life of the Palestinians in Gaza, the more secure Israeli Jews in Israel and in Washington, DC, because when we recognize the deep humanity of all people who are in Israel Palestine line associated with Israel Palestine, we create a climate of a culture that is valuated by a culture of living. And I think what Golan was talking about is the way a series of terrible events began before October 7, which began with the profound oppression of the Palestinians and then follow the terrible murders and kidnapping of October 7th. This is followed by the indictment of international law and inhibition organizations taken by international lawyers and human rights organizations. Praguevoge. Civil servants that this is what it means to go on a path of dehuman and horror, and we have to fight against him by recognizing and appreciating the life of Lischinsky and Milgrim and also the life of all these nameless Palestinians who are killed every day.

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