Just as long as I don't have to play the Violin

It's in the news today.

Apparently, one man forcing another to play his violin at gunpoint - and then mocking him as he did so - is the most offensive event to date in a long line of mishaps. Apparently there've been remorseless but accidental shootings of children, but forced violin playing is the most atrocious. See why:

"If we allow Jewish soldiers to put an Arab violinist at a roadblock and laugh at him, we have succeeded in arriving at the lowest moral point possible. Our entire existence in this Arab region was justified, and is still justified, by our suffering; by Jewish violinists in the camps."

The Guardian

A few points come to mind.

When did the remorseless killing of people become anything other than despicable? Isn't the message we need to learn from the atrocities of the holocaust that all life is sacred? What do we learn if the people who were so persecuted show no remorse about the accidental death of someone else? Wouldn't blatant disregard for other human life cheapen the 'all life is sacred' message? And forcing a man to play a violin is worse than killing him?

Also, why is this only important when taken in context of one's own (parents') suffering? I should hope that no event, no matter how tragic, can overshadow the accumulated wisdom of a people who have been united for hundreds of years, and that we can learn more from our elders than retribution.