Comments on: Saving innocent lives must have priority over civil liberties

By: Yaakov ben Yehuda

Yaakov ben Yehuda — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:00:31 +0000

Particularly another point, so as to protect its citizens Israel must deploy armed men on the ground to showing to the population on one hand a security climate and on the other hand, so as to disheartening terrorists to commit their programmed misdeeds by putting guards on the street throughout Israel.

By: Yaakov ben Yehuda

Yaakov ben Yehuda — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:57:03 +0000

All tourist coming to Israel would have expected to see a vast deployment of patrol around and within the city, security forces on high alert with patrol on every street to fend off terrorist threats; it is not at all the case, you never see policeman patrolling town center or any city streets in this regard

By: Bernhard Kirschner

Bernhard Kirschner — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:45:08 +0000

Dear Isi,
Although most of your suggestions appear to be practical solutions, and might even make more citizens safer in the short term, would we not be losing more by adopting this type of solution? We should remember that draconian measures issued with the best of intentions too often backfire on those that wished them.
Each citizen lost to terrorist acts is a horrible personal disaster to friends and family, and every life and limb is sacred. We are fighting a war against those with oppressive reactionary beliefs, and there will be casualties, unfortunately mostly among non-combatants. But is this not the case in most wars?
A democracy must respond forcefully to antidemocratic and totalitarian elements within its ranks without becoming totalitarian and abandoning the principles of democracy. Let us hope for all our futures there is a way. Perhaps we “better think it out again!”