What do you do when the people trying to kill you live around the block?

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Times of Israel:

Op-ed: Ultimately, the only way to thwart people bent on murder, with their minds poisoned by racism and religious extremism, is to curb the flow of toxicity

David Horovitz

October 14, 2015

 

What do you do when the people who are trying to kill you live in the neighborhood down the street? Or when they work for the phone company? When they try to kill anybody — uniformed soldiers and police, ultra-Orthodox Jews, all the passengers on a city bus? When they target men, and women, and children. When they are men, and women, and children?

 

When their leaders — politicians, spiritual leaders, teachers — lie to them about us, lie about our history, lie about our ambitions? When some of their leaders tell them they will go to paradise if they die in the act of killing us? When they (sometimes) lie to themselves about the killings they carry out — claiming that it is we who are rising up to kill them, that their bombers and stabbers are being attacked in cold blood by us — and thereby widen the circle of embittered potential killers?

 

When they (sometimes) lie to themselves about who it is they are killing, falsely claiming in widely circulated social media exchanges, for instance, that Na’ama Henkin, gunned down with her husband in the West Bank two weeks ago, was deliberately targeted because it was she who had insulted the prophet, calling Muhammad a pig, on a visit to the Temple Mount this summer? When all they need in order to kill is a knife or a screwdriver and a mind that’s been filled with poison? And when that poison pours into them from most every media channel they consume, and from the horrendous Facebook postings of their peers and their role models?

 

What do you do?

 

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