A despicable act by a people in dire need of introspection

I oppose the current badly formulated and poorly implemented Israeli policy of Jewish settlement building in the West Bank. I oppose it not because Jews should not live there. Jews should be able to live anywhere, so should Muslims, Christians, and atheists. I oppose it because Israel is allowing the settlements to be used as an excuse by corrupt Palestinian leaders to demonize Israel and to reject peace. However, I also strongly reject violence, particularly the type of inexcusable violence that we saw yesterday where a young Israeli girl was stabbed to death in her sleep.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority’s official Wafa news agency described the killer (who was killed by security guards after he committed his terrorist act) as a “martyr”.

This is not peace making. This is not nation building. This is not even resistance. This is a crime of unspeakable horror that no human being worth their salt can accept. It is despicable. Yet the Palestinians’ highest authority approved of it and glorified it. By giving their approval, they changed the crime from an individual’s crime to a crime by all Palestinians. How can anyone think that a society that is led by such thugs can go anywhere but down the sewer?

Palestinian leaders are worthless crooks, so it is up to the Palestinian people to confront the hate that they have so far embraced like a most precious treasure. If they do not, any dream of a Palestinian state will die and so will the very notion of Palestinians. If they do not, Palestinians will be remembered in the annals of history as a bunch of haters and terrorists who never achieved anything and then melted away like a meaningless entity.