Foaming at the mouth

is a complex, if difficult and sad day, for Israel. Some in Israeli society are calling it a Black Day. At the other end of the spectrum, it is touted as a Victory Day. Although I stand by the legal verdict, I still fall somewhere in the middle. It’s about the manslaughter conviction of IDF soldier Elor Azaria. I don’t believe in extra judicial killings, and if a court of law proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Elor Azaria’s act of killing was not an act of self-defense, but rather an act of revenge, then no person ought to be above the law. Justice was served for an illegal act of killing. But the essence of this story is that today’s conviction established that killing […]