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The suicide bomber surely did not devise and arrange the deadly explosives by himself. Potential witnesses and suspects in the murder range from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and his high command, down to neighbors of the bomber in his hometown. All - regardless of position or rank -...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author Nathan Lewin, Muna Giacaman-Tamimi, Stanley Boim, David Litke, Deborah Risk Tobin, Helen Kkoven, David Ben-Aron, Professor Moshe Maoz, Ed. JP, Professor Shlomo Slonim
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 08.06.2001
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Kimche, David
Maoz, Moshe
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Summary:The suicide bomber surely did not devise and arrange the deadly explosives by himself. Potential witnesses and suspects in the murder range from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and his high command, down to neighbors of the bomber in his hometown. All - regardless of position or rank - should be promptly arrested and interrogated under the detention and questioning authority conferred on Israeli police by Israeli law. And if it takes an armed garrison to enter an Arab village to arrest the suspect or witness, the time has come for the Israeli authorities to take that step. I must assert that the killing of innocent civilians is abhorrent. Attacks like the one on the Tel Aviv discotheque is morally unacceptable to me, and many other Palestinians, educated or not. But killing our civilians with your military machine, including the peaceful demonstrators on the Aksa grounds on September 28 last year, does not exonerate you from the sin of murder, nor does it justify by any moral standard the Israeli practice of collective punishment. Sir - My colleague, Professor [MOSHE MAOZ], has apparently for- gotten his history, both Jewish and American. In "Jews fabricate holy sites," Maoz is quoted as saying that "we invent all kinds of tombs," citing [Joseph]'s tomb in Nablus, which was destroyed by Palestinian rioters in October last year.