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Neither did you. But white people have murdered people in the past, sometimes on a horrific scale. So let’s crack down on them, too./s

Mean time, I repeatedly helped that house cleaner to get working papers for him and his family, and got medical help for his nephew at a big Jerusalem hospital that he could not get otherwise. As it is, his brother, the father of the baby, opted not to pay for the expensive enzyme therapy for the kid, because he couldn’t afford it, and the Jewish community of Neveh Daniel in Gush Etzion, while they donated generously to pay his fees at the Jerusalem hospital, could not afford to subsidize the enzyme therapy. But I did give him about 1,200 shekels to get a respirator. But he died anyway. Right now, his entire village is shut out of working in Jewish settlements due to the war, but I and others in Gush Etzion have donated cash so they can afford groceries.

Now there is a possibility that he’s a total scapegrace, and will one day sneak in in order to murder someone (the military has every inch of he perimeter under constant surveillance, and responds at the drop of a hat, as they should have been doing on 10/7 around Ghaza, a much more volatile area).

But there is the hope that he will be a true friend to those who have helped him, as he was when our apartment was flooded due to heavy rains, and he came and helped us clean up, and the many times we had to owe him for work done due to being broke. But we always paid him, and he knew that we would.

So I think he is a true friend and will remain so. We’ll see. You have to give peace a chance, real peace, which requires cultivating good will in regular interactions, not enforcing a two-state apartheid “solution” despite the bloodshed that trying to implement that has caused.