{"id":51549,"date":"2015-11-02T22:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=51549"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:03:54","slug":"fighting-big-knives-and-bad-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/fighting-big-knives-and-bad-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Big Knives and Bad Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You\u2019ve been getting the arithmetic of war all wrong: The bloody battle unfurling in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Ra\u2019anana and elsewhere in Israel involves three sides, not two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One consists of people like Isra Abed. She\u2019s 30, an Israeli-Arab divorcee with a young child living with her parents in Nazareth. Not too long ago, Abed graduated from the Technion, one of the world\u2019s finest institutions of higher learning. She could have followed in the path of another recent Israeli-Arab Technion grad from Nazareth, one not much older than Abed, and focus on discovering ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Magazine\/Young-Israelis-of-the-year-Dr-Hossam-Haick-34-Sniffing-out-cancer\">cure cancer<\/a>. She could\u2019ve enjoyed the privileges associated with her prestigious degree and joined her fellow alums in the Israeli workforce, where a Technion grad\u2019s average monthly salary is approximately $6,558, much higher than the average wage in the local economy. Instead, she took a large knife, traveled to the central bus station in the northern town of Afula, and tried to stab Jews. Soldiers arriving on the scene just in time <a href=\"http:\/\/news.walla.co.il\/item\/2895861\">shot<\/a>\u00a0and wounded her.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/194219\/big-knives-and-bad-ideas\">Tablet Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine writes: You\u2019ve been getting the arithmetic of war all wrong: The bloody battle unfurling in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Ra\u2019anana and elsewhere in Israel involves three sides, not two. One consists of people like Isra Abed. She\u2019s 30, an Israeli-Arab divorcee with a young child living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-israel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting Big Knives and Bad Ideas - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/fighting-big-knives-and-bad-ideas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting Big Knives and Bad Ideas - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine writes: You\u2019ve been getting the arithmetic of war all wrong: The bloody battle unfurling in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Ra\u2019anana and elsewhere in Israel involves three sides, not two. 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