{"id":456,"date":"2016-04-19T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschulman.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2016-04-19T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:03:01","slug":"a-complicated-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/a-complicated-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Complicated Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just came back from the rally in Rabin Square that is being held in support of the soldier accused of killing a neutralized Palestinian terrorist.\u00a0 It\u2019s a complicated story.\u00a0 Originally when the demonstration was announced\u00a0 I thought I would have to write a Newsweek article about the demonstration, but yesterdays hard news stories trumped todays news, so I think I can pass.\u00a0 Besides its late and i put much more effort into my Newsweek stories than I do for these blog posts.<\/p>\n

It many ways it was a good day for Israel today, the court system worked.\u00a0 This morning Yosef Chaim Ben David who was the leader of the group that killed Abu Khdier the Arab teenager burned to death\u00a0 last year was found guilty of murder.\u00a0 The court rejected his plea of insanity.\u00a0 The judge hinted that he would be sentenced to life in prison.\u00a0 A short time later, Yishai Schlissel\u2019s was convicted of murder for his attack on participants in the gay pride parade in Jerusalem last year.<\/p>\n

\"Rally<\/a>

Rally at Rabin Square<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight a more complicated environment took place in downtown Tel Aviv as thousands came to Rabin Square to show their solidarity with the soldier who is accused of killing the Palestinian terrorist who had already been neutralized.\u00a0 The accused was not at the location at the time of the attack but arrived later.\u00a0 The crowd was surprisingly not the average right wing gathering.\u00a0 Only a small part of the crowd were religious.\u00a0 I spoke to many of the participants and one theme kept repeating itself, the kid could be any our kids.\u00a0 We sent him and we should stand behind him even if he made a mistake.\u00a0 It was a sentiment that I could understand and even sympathize with.\u00a0 My only problem comes down to the fact that he the soldier did not just make a mistake, he seemingly in cold blood killed the wounded terrorist.<\/p>\n

\"Protester\"<\/a>

Protester<\/p><\/div>\n

People asked me at the rally how I would feel if it was my son, and when I heard both the Father and Mother of the soldier speak, my heart broke for the pain they are going through.\u00a0 The Mother was crying throughout her short speech.\u00a0 On the other hand, I would hope that my son whatever the circumstances and the general anger, would not go and just shoot someone.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hard story, there have\u00a0certainly been many cases of soldiers losing it in war, killing POW\u2019s and more. \u00a0Take a look at this story <\/a>of British soldier in Afghanistan. \u00a0As I discussed with one religious woman from a settlement tonight, serving in Hebron is not easy for soldiers the pressures are high on all sides and its easy enough to just lose it.\u00a0 But should there be consequences?\u00a0 I worried after spending time on occupation duty in Gaza 35 years ago that the occupation would have terrible consequences for our society, it has whether we like it or not.\u00a0 So maybe we cannot blame the soldier who was sent to do an impossible job but it’s our society at large who cannot come up with a solution.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The crowd<\/p><\/div>\n

In some ways my saddest conversation tonight was with a man who kept on saying that we have to beat the terror once and for all.\u00a0 He was close to my age and when I reminded him that this has been going on in one form or another for our whole lives he just repeated but we have to beat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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