ABSTRACT
The critics are right to say that Israeli soldiers made a bad judgment in delaying an ambulance that carried a pregnant woman. But it must add that similar ambulances were found to have grenades and bullets hidden in their floor boards. And the critic must add that hundreds of Arab women give birth every day in Israel, in Israeli hospitals, and are treated exactly as Jewish women are, and that Israeli hospitals are blind when it comes to race and color. Many critics on the left have bought into the story of the "Massacre of Jenin", as it is called. The Israel has chosen the ethical use of power. There are always compromises and challenges and pitfalls, always a margin of error. Israel has made the most valiant and incredible effort to reduce error, to act with restraint in the face of great provocation, to remain moral in a set of choices that are at best very difficult.
