There is a scene in the movie, Ben-Hur, where Esther, the slave Ben-Hur has freed, confronts him over the anger and desire for bloody retribution he harbors against his childhood friend, the Roman governor of Judea. "Violence begets violence," Esther warns, "just as dog begets dog!" Ben-Hur is unmoved. His anger blinds him to the warning, and he chooses to ignore it.
The other day, Esther's words came to mind when reports surfaced on the Internet regarding an interview conducted by the Fars News Agency, an Iranian media outlet closely connected with the Iranian government. The woman being interviewed was Bolouri Kashani, the wife of the late Mostafa Roshan, who was the Iranian nuclear scientist that was assassinated last month when a bomb was planted on his car. The nuclear scientist's wife was reported to have said that her husband wholeheartedly sought the destruction of Isreal and that the goal of her husband's work was the annihilation of Israel.
Esther was right. "Violence begets violence, just as dog begets dog!"
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