Ethos Clash in Israeli Society by Lewin Eyal;Lewin Eyal;

Author:Lewin, Eyal;Lewin, Eyal;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Shimon Peres may have had an illusion in the 1990s that former killers had, during all those years of killing, been willing to promote peace; but some of his followers, who shape the liberal ethos, also insist on purifying the enemy no matter what his deeds may have been. If the enemy only utters the word peace, no matter how many people he has murdered, his sins should be forgotten and forgiven. Perhaps an extreme example would be the way these adherents to the liberal ethos relate to arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti.

Barghouti became the founder and leader of the PLO’s terrorist group Tanzim in 2000, and he specialized in directing countless attacks and suicide bombings against civilians. In 2002 he was captured by the IDF, tried, and convicted on charges of murder. He was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences, based on the deaths of five specific individuals he was directly responsible for. He consequently belongs to a group of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists who are noted for “having blood on their hands”—that is, they are not just remote command givers but are directly and fully responsible for slaughter.

In the past few years, one of the heads of the Israeli Liberal Meretz party, former MK Haim Oron, started to visit Barghouti regularly in prison. Loyal to the liberal ethos, it was obvious to Oron that neither conviction nor imprisonment could exclude Barghouti from the evolution of peace in the region. The logic is simple: if the heads of the Palestinian Authority are potential partners in peace, and Barghouti supports them, then there is no reason why Barghouti too would not be a potential partner in peace. Author Amos Oz, Israel Prize recipient and a prominent promoter of the liberal ethos, sent one of his books, with Arabic translation, to the Palestinian prisoner through the friendly visiting MK; Oz added a personal inscription wishing Barghouti a speedy release from prison.

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