The poster child

Leo Rennert writes about the Washington Post's article by Ruth Eglash about released Palestinian prisoner , Esmat Mansour, who had been convicted as an accomplice to the murder of  Haim Mizrachi.

But there are two big problems with Eglash’s account.

First is Eglash’s selection of supposedly nonviolent Mansour as the poster child of released Palestinian terrorist prisoners.  Unfortunately, it’s the wrong fit.  Unlike Mansour, most freed prisoners again engage in terrorist activity.  By some accounts, as many as 80 percent do.  If you’re going to publish an emblematic profile of one of these prisoners, it ought to be one who reeks from recidivism.  Not Mansour who proclaims his rejection of violence.

Second, where is an equally extensive and empathetic profile of the family of an Israeli victim of a terrorist like Mansour?  Who exactly was Haim Mizrachi before he was stabbed to death with Mansour’s assistance?  What were Mizrachi’s accomplishments in life?  What were his hopes, his dashed dreams? And who still grieves for him? The Post and Eglash won’t tell us.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/wapo_humanizes_palestinian_terrorist_killer.html