“Every time a child cried, they would threaten him with a weapon to shut him up.”
She added: “I wanted to believe that Eitan would be well treated. Apparently not. Those people are monsters.”
Eitan’s whole family, including his mother and two sisters, aged 10 and 20 months, were abducted on what some in Israel now refer to as “Black Saturday”.
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity