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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/09/do0906.xml
Killings Cannot Dim Israel's Respect for Life
[Telegraph-UK] Ron Prosor - Eight Israeli Torah students were gunned down in Jerusalem last Thursday. The world cannot make allowances for such an act. It was cold-blooded murder and must be condemned, unconditionally and with no excuses. The international community must not be manipulated into arming murderers with credibility. Israel, as a democracy under fire, is facing a daily terrorist threat from extremists who celebrate death, despise democracy and seek Israel's destruction. These extremists target Israeli civilians as a strategy, the product of a mindset that values death at all costs. It is the mindset that leads a man to unload an AK-47 at point blank range into children studying in a library. It is a disturbed mindset that allows a Hamas spokesman to describe that massacre as "the heroic operation in Jerusalem." The writer is Israel's ambassador to the UK.