Israelis were shocked twice last week. The first time occurred when the bodies of two Bedouin toddlers were discovered after they were allegedly killed by their father. The second time occurred once it became clear that the chronicle of this death was also foretold. If the Israeli police had taken seriously the girls’ mother, Abir Dandis, then Osnad, 3, and Rimas, 5, would still be alive.
On the night before the murder, the girls’ mother appeared at the police station in the southern town of Arad to lodge a complaint against her husband. “I’m afraid he’ll kill the girls,” she said. The tragedy is that she ran up against a wall of indifference. The Israeli media reported that the policemen didn’t even bother to leave the station to investigate her charges.
