Yossi Beilin returns to his vomit
The images of the terror attack at the yeshiva in Jerusalem are difficult, painful, and infuriating. It appeared we already reached a calmer period. Only recently we were thankful for the relative quiet of 2007, yet again we see ambulances, the dead, and the wounded.
Yet we must not repeat the grave mistake we made in the fall of 2000, when it appeared that an iron fist would cut off the enemy’s arm. The iron fist gave rise to hatred, revenge, and many clenched fists – never before have so many civilians been killed in Israel as were killed in the first years of the third millennium. We must not return to September 2000.