(New York Daily News) Avi Weiss - 5-year-old Ido was killed instantly when shrapnel from a Hamas rocket pierced his family's metal safe room in the Israeli town of Sderot, on the Gaza border. The loss of any child, Arab or Jewish, is devastating. Still, I know that there is no moral equivalency. Not one of the children killed in Gaza was premeditated. In contrast, every person killed in Israel by Hamas was premeditated. Ido was not killed, he was murdered. The writer is founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.
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