KIDS ON BOTH SIDES HAVE PAID THE PRICE

Whoever kidnapped the three Israeli teenagers in Hebron and murdered them had every intention of setting off a 'perfect storm,' whatever the repercussions.  The kidnappers appear to have coldly calculated that  it was worth it, to foment trouble on a grand scale.  Irrespective of  the awfulness of what had happened, the spokesman for the family, an uncle, was supremely considered in his pleas for no more killings. To paraphrase him, he believed no religion tells you to murder in its name. How I and countless others wish his words had been heard and abided by.  

However, repercussions there have been. During protests against the authorities in Gaza, a boy, Muhammad Durin was killed.  

Following the murder of the three Israeli boys, an Arab boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, was abducted and murdered in what appears to be a reprisal action.  Repercussions upon repercussion continue as I write this post.  Israeli politicians have  denounced the reprisal attack as strongly as they denounced the original three murders that set off the train of events.  As if there was was not enough grief, Muhammad Abu Khdeir's  cousin was detained by the police and sported the physical signs of it. 

It has been announced by the Israeli police that there have been several arrests of Israeli citizens in connection with the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir; the conundrum remains that no-one has been detained for the murder of the three Israeli boys. 

The foment has been stirred into violence from the ground up, just as had been intended by the attack on and killings of the  three Israeli teenagers.

 An Israeli friend posted the following, after the discovery of the the bodies of the Israeli teenagers and before the murder of the Arab boy.  

"Many other kids from both sides have paid the price of ancestral crimes and I really hope that they and the boy Muhammad Durin that was killed in a protest last week are the last in a very long list of unnecessary victims..."

 This says everything I want to say, more eloquently than I could say it.  I wish it had been the last word on the awful killings; I fervently wish it will be.