Contrary to my friend Ari Fuld, I believe that there are compromises that need to be made in order for our Jewish State to prevail.
Many eulogized Ari, including at a beautiful, heartbreaking funeral attended by thousands. But some of the voices that I was confronted with on social media were extremely disturbing. One conveyed a lack of compassion for Ari because he was a “settler.” Others, including my more spiteful followers, went so far to say that the proud Israeli father of four “deserved it,” or “he was fair game” because he was a “colonizer.”
When you side with a 17-year-old brainwashed teen who has an institutionalized support system across the spectrum; when you side with the schools of scorn, the academies of hate, the roads of rancor and the politicians that amplify the calls to murder a Jew in Judea, then you are on the wrong side of history.
Don’t lecture me about occupation. Don’t lecture me about rights. Because in this argument of right and wrong, you are wrong.
You may consider yourself liberal or progressive. But if you accept this brutality, feel no sorrow for a father of four stabbed to death, then you are no different than the coward that sneaked up behind him and took his life from his family and from us.
Read more: https://forward.com/opinion/410367/if-you-cant-mourn-ari-fuld-you-are-an-accomplice-in-his-murder/
