Rabbi Leo Dee: Vast majority of Palestinians are good people
The father and husband of the three British-Israelis murdered in the West Bank tells Sky News how his late wife Lucy's organs have saved the lives of five people, including an Arab citizen
Lee Harpin is the Jewish News's political editor
The father and husband of the three British-Israelis murdered in the West Bank earlier this month has insisted only a “small percentage of the Palestinian population” are responsible for violence in the region.
In an interview with Sky News Rabbi Leo Dee said: “I have faith, I have hope, and I believe that the violence is actually caused by a small percentage of the Palestinian population and the vast majority of Palestinians are good people.
“They are prime victims of the Palestinian regime, as are the people in Gaza victims of their regime.”
Rabbi Dee also revealed that the organs donated from his late wife Lucy’s body, that saved five people’s lives, included that of an Arab citizen.
He told Sky News:”I think that is significant to us because Lucy was very much into peaceful relations with our neighbours and I think she would have been very proud that she saved the life of an Arab.”
Rabbi Dee also praised foreign secretary James Cleverly after he issued a statement which the rabbi said represented an “unequivocal condemnation of violence” by Britain.
Asked for his thoughts on the fact that those that killed his daughters Maia, 20, and 15-year-old Rina and wife Lucy in a gun attack on April 7th, as they were driving near the Jordan valley, Rabbi Dee told the journalist at the television channel: “I feel that the Israeli security forces will do what they usually do which is to track them down and bring them to justice which I think is right because it prevents the next attack that they might do.”
Rabbi Dee also claimed that a statement issued by the foreign secretary had gone further in condemning “evil terrorists” than had previously been the case in this country.
In an emotional interview he described the moments, when driving in a separate car, he had learned of the attack on the three victims car.
The rabbi, who left Radlett in 2005 with his family to move to the settlement of Efrat also spoke of the nightmare scenario at the hospital in Jerusalem, and his realisation he had to stay strong for his two other daughters and his son.
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