No good deed goes unpunished, said Martin Fletcher in MSNBC. Wafaa Younis, a Palestinian Arab, tries to help Palestinian children in the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, getting boys to “put down their stones and learn the violin.” But when she took her youth orchestra to play for Holocaust survivors near Tel Aviv—for Israel‘s “Good Deeds Day”—Palestinian officials disbanded the orchestra.
“Shame on us a thousand times!” said Khalid Amayreh in Palestine Think Tank. Not for shutting the orchestra—for letting these innocent young Palestinians be “duped to sing and play music to their oppressors and child-killers.” This is at least as demoralizing and insulting as when Jews were forced to play music to SS and Gestapo soldiers during World War II.
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