Wrong can't be allowed to stand
On May 5, 2015, Israel's High Court of Justice ruled to allow the army to demolish the entire village of Susiya and expel its residents, numbering around 340 men, women and children. Considered a highly unusual move, the court refused to grant an interim order freezing the implementation of the demolition, until the court hears the discussion on the appeal to authorise the village representatives of the Israeli military's "Civil Administration" informed residents of Susiya of their intent to demolish at least part of the village before an appeal of Susiya's case in the High Court, to be heard on August 3rd.
Critic of Israeli policy, Theodore Bikel, says in an interview, "Human beings must be given the dignity and the respect that all human beings deserve, especially by a people who themselves—Jews—have experienced such deprivation in the past." So when I say that the very people who were told to get out of Anatevka in the fictional village of 'Fiddler on the Roof', the descendants of those very people are now telling others, strangers in their midst, that they must get out of their homes, seems fundamentally wrong. And a wrong cannot be allowed to stand.
Ted Rudow III, MA
CA, USA
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