He’ll never know his actions personally destroyed the possibility, hoped for by peacenik Israelis and too comfortable and too secular Europeans and Americans, of any form of Palestinian state.

Arab states hesitate to accept Palestinian refugees, citing historical conflicts, strained relations, and concerns about regional instability.

More astounding than events in Israel last week was the much larger than expected support for the atrocities by the woke left.

I don’t talk about the Middle East much, because the more I learn the less I seem to understand. Many, many people, hope and pray for the end of the conflict.

Back then – as now – this fit into a “colonialist” narrative of European Jews oppressing Arabs – an easy, eye pleasing but intellectually lazy fit.