Anything Can Happen

Haaretz has a long profile on the strange case of Meir Amar, the son of the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, who is currently on trial. Here's a taste:

Honor. It is the key word in the incredible life story of Meir Amar, who is said to have a heart of gold and a hot-blooded temperament. He ran away from his ultra-Orthodox home when he was around bar mitzvah age, and grew up from then on mostly in a Bedouin encampment in the north. In keeping with the extremes that characterize his life, he married a settler from Tekoa and went to live in the settlement, but they divorced after a short time and then Meir went off to the Far East and disappeared ... Eventually he returned to the sources that he knew so well, to the tradition and the codes of behavior that he acquired in the Bedouin encampment where he matured, and set out to defend his sister's purity, to defend the "family honor."

If a story as unlikely as this one can happen, why not peace?