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Freedom Fighters

In 1994, 19 year old Arik Frankenthal was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas.

I would consider Frankenthal's killers to be terrorists, but in a Haaretz column, his father, Yitzhak Frankenthal, refers to them as "freedom fighters." Frankenthal writes that "I lost my first-born son at the hands of Palestinian freedom fighters - the freedom of which the Palestinians were deprived because of the occupation that even Prime Minister Sharon now admits is a bad thing."

After his son's murder, Yitzhak Frankenthal became involved in left-wing movements, and has gradually moved to the extreme left. His opposition to Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria is a legitimate political view, but his reference to Hamas terrorists as "freedom fighters" is not. Nor is his implication that "the occupation" is to blame for his son's murder. As Frankenthal surely knows, Hamas believes "the occupation" to have begun upon Israel's formation in 1948.

If Hamas killers are freedom fighters, than their mass murder of Israelis - which has never differentiated between religious and secular, soldier and civilian, man, woman and child, or residents of areas held by Israel before or after 1967 - is legitimate. As Hamas continues to murder Israelis and fight for Israel's destruction, Frankenthal's reference to them as freedom fighters, and his blame of Israel's "occupation" for his son's murder, is an immoral justification of the murder of Arik Frankenthal and the thousands of other victims of Palestinian terror.
posted on 6/02/2003