The Guardian reports that an incident in which soldiers forced a violinist to play at a roadblock is causing an uproar within Israel. Recent IDF abuses such as the shooting of a young girl and the mutilation of corpses generated less angst than this: "If we allow Jewish soldiers to put an Arab violinist at a roadblock and laugh at him, we have succeeded in arriving at the lowest moral point possible. Our entire existence in this Arab region was justified, and is still justified, by our suffering; by Jewish violinists in the camps."
(Via Juan Cole.)
Posted by geoff2 at November 30, 2004 03:50 PMUnfortunately, I understand it.
It is a very sad commentary on how numb Israel has become, that only something that touches the collective memory of the Holocaust could create such an outrage. Maybe it is a new beginning, one can only hope.