Jacek

@eadg.bsky.social

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The sliver of young settlers terrorizing Palestinians in Judea and Samaria are easy to denounce from a moral standpoint: murder is evil, arson is evil, theft is evil. They are also worthy of denunciation from a strategic standpoint: blackening Israel’s name, inviting retribution, fomenting anarchy, forcing the diversion of IDF resources and manpower, etc. But the few violent settlers believe—wrongly, to be sure—that they are participating in an existing anarchy, not paving the way for a new lawlessness. They have weaponized the resentment some Israelis feel toward the system that ensures the most dangerous Palestinian terrorists will avoid their sentences and be freed to kill again and again.
"I saw lots of people doing lots of hard work, and hard work didn't translate into success either. It wasn't what you knew or how hard you worked. In fact, the people who were doing construction on Telegraph Avenue at that time, you know, coming in at seven o'clock in the morning and spending 12 hours working, they looked like they still were neither happy nor successful, so it was not, you know, and what I learned from [my job at the] Dalton [School], lots of it in fact, turns out to not necessarily be who you are but who you came in contact with."