Son of shooting victim: Revenge is not for Jews

HaAretz ^ | 12/25/09 | Chaim Levinson, Avi Issacharoff and Anshel Pfeffer

[Nachum]

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Jerusalem on Friday morning to bury Rabbi Meir Hai, a father of seven who was shot dead by Palestinians near his home in the West Bank a day before.

In eulogizing his father, Hai's 16-year-old son Eliyahu urged mourners not to consider seeking revenge for the attack. "The difference between us and them is that we are people, Jews, holy," he said.

[SJackson]

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[RoadTest]

You sound like you think you know more than God.

[Eleutheria5]

Problem is, the perpetrators will read that and say to themselves: You mean, we can shoot you and there are no consequences? Hot diggity! Collective reprisals are wrong, but there must be some way to make doing things like this not worth while to other would-be shooters.