http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1071541100425&p=1006953079865I LOOK at her seemingly serene picture in the paper and think that if I had been one of her interrogators I would have asked her, in a somewhat trembling tone: "Latifa, why did you do it? Didn't you think for one moment of the mothers like you who were liable to lose their lives because of you? And the children like yours who could have been permanently crippled or been blown to pieces? Didn't you understand what would happen to your own small children when your crime was discovered? Didn't you realize where this hatred would lead, and what would happen to your family, friends, and nation?"
Even worse," I would say to her, "because of you and others like you, our soldiers will be forced from now on to examine every Palestinian woman and regard her as a security risk. You have violated the unwritten code that took into account the dignity of the Palestinian woman. You have violated our most fundamental belief that women, and especially mothers of children, remain outside the terrible circle of terror, outside the hunts and searches. You are the first one to destroy the concept. Your innocent friends, on their way to the doctor or visiting their families, will pay the price of your act at the checkpoints."
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Latifa returns me and others like me to cruel reality. She causes us, and our children who are serving in the army, to live in this impossible situation. For lack of an alternative, and since no one will do it in our place, we shall continue to make life tough for them in order to save our own lives.
So, dear Latifa, thank you.
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