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“The very fact that Azaria was tried, painstakingly tried in an unimpeachably credible Israeli court of law, represented reaffirmation of Israel’s determination to preserve its morality — its insistence on preventing our enemies, our terrorist foes, from reducing us to their cynical, murderous depths… Immediately pardoning Azaria, it should be obvious but apparently is not, would represent a mockery of that legal process, and of our vital, self-preserving values. It would imply a tolerance for the intolerable, corroding the open-fire orders and the entire framework that guides our troops in their work.”

(Founding Editor of the Times of Israel David Horovitz on the trial of Sgt. Elor Azaria, convicted of manslaughter for shooting an immobilised Palestinian assailant, in an opinion piece in the Times of Israel, 05/01/17)