What if, indeed, he was a Jew?

Submitted by David Koral (United States), Sep 14, 2006 at 12:51

I haven't read many of the other comments here. It occurred to me, though, that even if this was a case of mistaken identity, if the young man who was stabbed was indeed Jewish, couldn't it be that he too might volunteer at a center for Palestinian Arab children, and be sympathetic to their point of view?

If the parents of Angelo Frammartino are willing to forgive this murder, with the understanding that their son was mistaken for a Jew, aren't they denying the possibility that there are Jews in Israel and Jerusalem who would see eye-to-eye with their son? It seems from this that they have already made unfair conclusions about Israelis while bending over backward to apologize for the type of terror that took their son's life.

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