Ahavat Chinam: Baseless Love

Israeli riot police officers met resistance on Tuesday as they removed Jewish
settlers from illegal residences in the West Bank city of Hebron. As one
settler was carried off near the market, an officer rushed to pick up the
man’s glasses from the ground. - NY Times 8/8/07

I'm no fan of illegal settlers in Hebron, nor is the Israeli Army

always a bastion of righteousness. However, this picture pretty

much embodies to me the highest ideals of the Jewish state.

Everybody has the right to protest, and the cops not only don't

brutalize you for your objections, but rather facilitate the

protesting process.

I mean, granted, the NY Times could have just as easily shown

pictures of settlers spitting on cops (which they did too). But the

standard of behavior between Yids should be this picture above,

no more and no less. The Talmud teaches that the Temple was

destroyed because of baseless hatred. I'm all about the baseless love.