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Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2016/03/avni_terror_shouldn_t_be_rewarded
Terror Shouldn't Be Rewarded
(Boston Herald) Micah Lakin Avni - Four months having passed since the brutal murder of my father, Richard Lakin, a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S. You would be hard-pressed to find a greater advocate for peace and coexistence than my father. As a young man in Connecticut, he pioneered the integration of the school at which he served as principal, and marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights struggle. In Israel, as an active member of several coexistence movements, he dedicated his professional life to teaching English to children of all races and religions. Jewish, Muslim and Christian children visited his hospital bedside after he had been shot and stabbed on a bus in Jerusalem. PA President Mahmoud Abbas must shoulder much of the blame. He has shamelessly endorsed the actions of countless terrorists, praising their "martyrdom." He even made a condolence call to the family of Bahaa Allyan, one of the two terrorists who murdered my father.