Article in Huff-Post shared by Nasik Elahi

One, by the killing of the three teenagers and, two, by the Israeli government’s (and the Jewish organizations here) ugly reaction to it. Ugly and political, designed to justify the war against Hamas that Netanyahu lusts for.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s response was perhaps the most repulsive response to an event like this that I have ever seen by any national leader of a civilized country. He vows “revenge.” Revenge? Not Even George W. Bush used that term after 9/11, pledging instead to bring the people who committed the crime to justice. FDR after Pearl Harbor? The parents after Newtown?

Meanwhile other Israeli politicians and Jewish organizations here are in their “we are one” mode, which means standing together as Netanyahu blasts innocent Palestinians, and pretending that the settlement enterprise is not responsible for almost all of this.

Disgusting.

There is no Israeli action I would not support against those who perpetrated the crimes, ordered it or harbored the killers — and no act of collective punishment I would support. Collective punishment is a war crime and those who inflict it should be tried and convicted, nothing less.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/west-bank-murders-what-ca_b_5548666.html