A very touching tribute to an Israeli rapist in the New York Times

" A day after Moshe Katsav, Israel’s former president, turned 66, his modest home in this immigrant town was filled on Tuesday with grandchildren and well-wishers. Phones rang. Neighbors with sun-creased faces offered hugs. Rabbis in tall hats gave their blessings...Mr. Katsav seems to speak from the core of his being when he claims to be innocent of all charges. Tears flowed on occasion as he sat at his dining room table recounting the details of his case in a two-hour interview.  He had come to doubt, he said, the system to which he had devoted his life...A neighbor, Sammy Vaknin, stopped by on Tuesday. He said that for him, Mr. Katsav represented the state in the same way the national anthem and the flag did. To send Mr. Katsav to prison, he said — “even if he did something wrong” — was like throwing the flag in the garbage.  “We might as well hand the country over to the Palestinians,” Mr. Vaknin said."  I do agree with the last person.  Who can better represent the Zionist usurping entity than a convicted rapist?