Sunday, September 9, 2007

not my problem

When my son misbehaves at school should the school attempt to help him acknowledging him as a disruption and a part of Israeli society or should the school simply pass him on to another school. Sheetrit seems to see the problem of the Nazi boys as lets get rid of them. He wishes to extradite them.
I am not so sure. Infact the opposite , if in a Jewish country as Jews we are in serious trouble if we simply throw them out. How to deal with them. First they must be severely punished in a way that any other neonazi will see and realise what is happening. Next we must check our own society. The mother of one of the boys, Eli the Nazi" Boanitov claims her son had done no wrong and was a victim of persecution of Russian immigrants. Not a reason but worthy of checking and amending, even more we must check how we are treating Ethiopian Jews, and other minorities including Arabs. We are so self righteous but is their behaviour not a super highly exaggerated extreme of what people and government do every day.
Yes I was shocked when the story first broke a month ago. I have had time to digest since they had been arrested my feelings and opinions. Now the names have been made public (it has been a closed case up to now) one feels that the politicians all have to say too much in public-that should have been said before we knew who they were. Now is the time for real solutions, we must stengthen our society against racism etc.