Michael Ledeen interviews Eliad Moreh, a survivor from the Hebrew University bombing:

Ledeen: There are many who feel the Palestinians are entitled to be free, and to determine their own lives?

Moreh: Of course, but not at the expense of our own lives. Palestinians were offered an independent state in the frame of the Oslo agreement, but they rejected it, and started a terrorist war against Israel, proving they had no interest in coexistence. Besides, what kind of freedom is it when it is acquired at the expense of innocent bodies? Is there anything that can justify the deliberate murdering of as many people as possible? In the name of this freedom Palestinians are assassinating people whose only crime is going to a supermarket, or to a restaurant, or to a dance hall, or to a family celebration. This is not freedom, it is barbarity. The terrorists’ intention is to make hell out of this place. They even burn the trees in our country, do you know that? What crimes have the trees committed?

Ledeen: There have been many religious wars in history, and the terrorists now speak in the name of religion.

Moreh: The wars of religion are the most dangerous, because the moment one is ready to kill in order to impose his religion on the others, no dialogue is possible. The Jewish people have more than 3,000 years of history on this land, long before these assassins claimed it. Yet, no Jew ever imposed his religion on the others, it was always the opposite. Since the creation of the state of Israel, Muslims, and Christians can go to their sacred places. But Jews cannot go to the sacred places that are in the Palestinian Authority and come back alive, that’s the difference.

Interesting read — if for no other reason than to witness the rhetorical restraint evidenced by someone who’s just lost a friend and who was herself seriously injured in the cowardly Hamas bombing of a packed cafeteria at Hebrew University.