• Peres calls murder of Abu Khdeir a ‘moral crisis’ that must be handled immediately
  以色列Peres總統稱Abu Khdeir（16歲阿拉伯青年）的謀殺為：一個必須馬上處理的『道德危機』

By GREER FAY CASHMAN
07/08/2014 04:35

“A moral crisis is worse than a political crisis,” Peres added, emphasizing that it was an educational issue more than a political one.
總統Peres稱：一個道德危機比一個政治危機更加嚴重、可怕。這道德危機是一個教育議題，多過於政治議題。

President Shimon Peres and Education Minister Shai Piron condemned on Monday the murder of 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir from east Jerusalem by suspected Jewish terrorists last week while speaking at a celebration of the Future Scientists and Inventors educational project at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

The murder of Abu Khdeir, the president said, proves a “major crisis in education” in the country, adding that “this is not just a criminal crisis, it’s a moral crisis.”
以色列總統Peres說：阿布Khdeir的謀殺證明國家中「一個重大的教育危機」，並稱「這不僅是一個犯罪的危機，這是一個道德危機。」

“A moral crisis is worse than a political crisis,” he added, emphasizing that it was an educational issue more than a political one, and that “we have to deal with it immediately and uproot it.”
總統Peres繼續說：「一種道德上的危機比政治危機更加惡化（可怕），強調這個危機是個教育議題，多過於政治議題，而我們必須立刻處理它、拔除它。」

Peres said that nobody believed that Jews were capable of such brutality, and that the murder goes against the grain of all Jewish values and that it must be addressed with the greatest seriousness.
總統Peres說沒有人相信猶太人有能力這樣殘暴的，而這起（16歲Abu Khedir活活燒死）謀殺違背所有的猶太價值觀的一切層面，因此它（這起報復性謀殺）必須以最嚴肅的態度處理。

A mother’s tears have no color, he said, noting that the tears shed by the mothers of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer were the same as those shed by Abu Khdeir’s mother, just as his blood was the same color as that of the three Jewish boys who were murdered.
總統Peres說：一個母親的眼淚是沒有顏色的（差異），那三位猶太青年（16歲Naftali Fraenkel、19歲Eyal Yifrah、16歲Gil-Ad Shaer）的母親們的眼淚跟16歲阿拉伯青年Abu Khedeir的母親所留的眼淚是一樣的顏色，就如同這位阿拉伯青年Abu Khdeir所留的血跟三位猶太青年所留的血的顏色是一樣的。

“Today shame goes forth from Zion,” the president said, adding that the murder should shock the entire nation and that “the world cannot remain silent when a child is murdered and burned to death.”
總統Peres說：「今天羞恥出自於錫安，這起謀殺應該震驚整個以色列全國，並且當一個孩子被殺害、燒死，世界不能保持沉默。」

Also speaking at the Future Scientists and Inventors program that encourages top high-school students to take up scientific studies in order to become the scientists and inventors of the future, Piron said that the Jewish world takes pride in the high ratio of Jewish Nobel Prize laureates, and suggested that perhaps the reason that Jews forge ahead intellectually is because they ask so many questions.
以色列教育部長Piron說「全球的猶太人引以如此高百分比的猶太諾貝爾獎得主為榮，並建議或許猶太人銳意進取智力的原因是因為猶太人他們問這麼多的問題。」

“But today we have to ask questions of a different kind,” he said. “We have to ask what brought about this mega impairment and lack of respect for human life to our morality. The Torah tells us that respect for human life takes priority over all other considerations. Today the blood of all our brothers screams at us from the earth.
教育部長Piron說：「但今天我們必須提問不同類別的問題們。我們需要問的問題：是什麼導致我們的道德中帶來一個對人的生命之龐大減值和不尊重人的生命。Torah經文告訴我們，尊重人的生命優先於所有其他的考量。今天，我們所有的兄弟們（3位猶太青年、一位阿拉伯青年）的血發出聲音，從地裏向我們哀告。

Today, all four grieving families become one family.”
今天四個悲傷的家庭（三位猶太青年的家屬們、一位阿拉伯青年的家屬們）成為一個家庭。」

Itzik Turgeman, the director of the Rashi Foundation and one of the founders of the program, said that the project had evolved from an issue Peres had addressed in 2008, when he voiced concern at the decline of science and technology studies in schools.

The president said that a far greater investment in science and technology curricula and studies at high-school level was required, as well as the united efforts of the Education Ministry, academia, industry, the IDF and philanthropic organizations.

The program is an important investment in strengthening the periphery and reducing the socioeconomic gap, said Turgeman.

The project is run with the cooperation of Tel Aviv University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Program director Eli Ben Eliezer said that it will be expanded next year to include the Hebrew University and Tel-Hai College. He anticipated that by 2024 there would be at least a 1,000 alumni.

來源耶路撒冷郵報：http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Peres-calls-murder-of-Abu-Khdeir-a-moral-crisis-that-must-be-handled-immediately-361879