The voice of the blood of your neighbors and citizens cries out from the earth. I cry out before my Jewish friends and colleagues. Before whom else do we have left to cry out? Before the government? Before the police? Before whom?
156 were murdered. 156 human beings. Sacred lives taken. Lives of men and women, boys and girls. Many of them innocent, who paid with their lives for the disregard of the value of human life. How I cry out, holy lives taken with such cruelty.
Is it all political? How can we remain indifferent to the cry of the girl who lost her father, the child who lost his mother? Do that girl and boy not wonder if, had they not been Arabs, perhaps the murder could have been prevented? Is this the society in which we want to live?
So there will be those who say it's our culture, or those who blame our religion, maybe even many for whom Arab blood doesn't trouble them at all. How did we lose our humanity – we no longer care about human lives?
A public leader was murdered in front of a police station. Where have we reached?
When I heard about the horrific attack in which Bat-Sheva Nagari, may her memory be a blessing, was murdered, I couldn't stop crying. I felt such immense pain for a young mother whose life was taken in such cruelty. For her 12-year-old daughter who witnessed it all. I couldn't fall asleep. And then I saw the news about the assassination of Dr. Abd al-Rahman Kashua, the CEO of the Tira Municipality, and I was in shock. A public leader, a father, murdered like that? In front of a police station. Where have we reached?
Two weeks ago, I was among the participants in the "March of the Dead" initiative in Tel Aviv. 147 coffins were carried by Arab youth, many Jewish individuals walked alongside us. Alongside the deep sorrow, we also held onto hope that we are not alone. However, for the families, the orphans, this is not enough. In many cases of murder, the grieving families live next to the murderers who are not indicted due to lack of evidence or proof. Think about the reality in which a despicable murderer walks freely next to the victim's family. In what humane society can this occur?
