Words can kill.
This is the sentence we have been hearing for 30 years, since that damned night when an Israeli prime minister was assassinated.
This evening, the words came back to haunt us, following the extensive search for the disappearance of the police officer Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi.
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Why is this frustrating?
Because each side points an accusing finger at the other side and says: 'Remember, words can kill.' That is, your words...
Could it be that words can kill on any side? Is it possible that the order 'whoever publicly whitens his friend's face is as if he sheds blood' is also relevant when it comes to a prime minister who does not answer the name 'Yitzhak Rabin'? Benjamin Netanyahu, just for example?
It is impossible that one side allows itself to metaphorically beat Netanyahu to the point of blood, and then rolls its eyes on the anniversary of Rabin's assassination and says: 'Oh my, words can kill.'.
Of course they can!
Anyone who is not willing to have a "poison machine" on the right direct its verbal attacks and posts towards a female attorney general or a legal advisor to the government cannot agree to the mockery and playing of a recording of Sara Netanyahu with the words that denigrate her, "P-S-I-C-O-L-O-G-I-T.".
Let's decide. Either we all stop harming public figures/elected officials/well-known figures - or we don't.
Pointing an accusing finger at the other side and saying: 'You blamed, you betrayed, you robbed' without doing the same towards yourself - this is hypocrisy, at best. Maybe even a crime, at worst.
Yes, words, from the right and the left, can kill!
