I almost wrote the title "I am ashamed to be Jewish" on this, but I am still proud of my heritage, but not Israeli policies toward the West Bank.
Even Bibi Netanyahu said "We are shocked by it, we condemn it fully....we decry it as terrorism."
He was referring to the news that radical conservative Jewish settlers on the West Bank committed an act of arson burning a Palestinian family to death. They sprayed Hebrew graffiti and drew a Star of David and watched the people burn, not giving one iota of care about the suffering they directly caused. That is something to be ashamed of and it is criminal.
It only reconfirms in my mind the necessity of Israel doing on the West Bank what they did in Gaza. Uproot the settlers and return to the 1948 borders with some adjustments for reality and let the PLO govern. There are radical people on both sides and they can only be controlled by their own people. Governments have to hold each other accountable for that control.
Of course this has about as much chance of happening as the GOP agreeing their support for the NRA position on background checks and automatic weapons needs to change.
But one can always hope.
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