Spare me your shock

[shira]

Yesterday morning, a Palestinian teenager broke into the home of a Jewish family near Hebron. He entered the bedroom of a thirteen-year-old girl. She was asleep. He locked the door. He raised a knife, and he stabbed Hallel Yaffe Ariel in the head. Again, and again and again.

The nauseating attack drew instant condemnation. “The stabbing of a 13-year-old girl is a new record in atrocious and cruel acts,” said the German Foreign Office.

Please. Cut the hyperbole and spare me your shock. This horrifying attack was brutal, but hardly beyond measure: we have been here before. And if you weren’t watching when other, equally gruesome attacks were perpetrated, then you’ll forgive me for questioning your judgment in understanding what we’re up against.

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