For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column
THE FORGOTTEN FIRE?
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Last week’s fires did little to illuminate much of the unknown still shrouding another conflagration that flared up, almost a year and a half ago.
It appears this week on the following sites (in alphabetical order):
ALGEMEINER: https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/12/02/the-forgotten-fire/
ISRAELI FRONTLINE: http://www.israelifrontline.com/2016/12/fray-forgotten-fire.html
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19862
ISRAEL NEWS ONLINE: (To be posted)
ISRAEL’S VOICE: http://www.israelsvoice.org/2016/12/01/fray-forgotten-fire/
ISRAPUNDIT: http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63619834
MEDIUM: https://medium.com/@martinsherman/into-the-fray-the-forgotten-fire-aed705e6ff86#.ofocf6nzo
JEWSDOWNUNDER: http://jewsdownunder.com/2016/12/02/fray-forgotten-fire/
JEWISH PRESS: (To be posted)
An excerpt:
I feel a sense of shame, and even more, a sense of pain…at the murder of a small baby. Pain that from my people, there are those who have chosen the path of terrorism, and have lost their humanity…To my great sorrow, until now it seems we have been lax in our treatment of the phenomena of Jewish terrorism…
– Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel, August 1, 2015, the day after the lethal arson in Duma, perpetrated by persons, whose identity and ethnicity have yet to be determined.
Last week, fires raged across Israel, some close enough to my home for me to smell the smoke. According to official sources, a good number of the fires were the result of deliberate arson, which, fortunately, seemed to have caused no fatalities—although this could hardly be presumed to have been the perpetrators intent. …But the flames of last week’s blaze did little to illuminate much of the unknown still shrouding another conflagration that flared up, almost a year and a half ago, in Duma, an Arab village about 35 km NE of Jerusalem. In its aftermath, flames of prejudice, hysteria and hyperbole swept through the country, consuming virtually all it encountered in its path –particularly any regard for the truth and dispassionate analysis…
