While being brought into the emergency room at the Sha-arei Tzedek hospital, some 30 people, including members of the hospital staff, witnessed Abu Daiyeh being beaten by Israeli policemen and, some witnesses said, by hospital guards. Although Abu Daiyeh's arms and legs were shackled, the policemen claimed he had attacked them. Abu Daiyeh died during the 20-minute beating in the emergency room or immediately thereafter. It is immoral not to care. People are being tortured and killed, without anyone being the wiser.
Smears are effective political weapons.
They paralyze us morally. Not only that, we even finance them. This lack of honesty in discussing the Middle East situation has contributed to 50 years of war and conflict in the Middle East, and has cost us dearly, both in international respect for our integrity, and in dollars. There is only one reason for that conflict. Israel would not accept 1947 United Nation's Partition of Palestine even though it was exceedingly generous.