re: #175 Bob Levin

The murders did not take place in a vacuum. There is organization, planning, funding, culture, and government that share in this act. These murders are not some psycho goes into a school and opening fire. This particular murder is one of a long series of such events—all done with the intent of scaring the Jews out of Israel. The desired consequence of the murders was to make the Jews want to flee from their homes. More building is a message to the higher ups on the terrorist food chain—this strategy isn’t going to work.

Indeed. Regardless of issues collective guilt, Israel is opposed by a culture that sees Jews as having no place in the Middle East and sees their murder as a positive good. However blame is to be apportioned, pushback against such a culture is required if it is to be opposed successfully.