Will the Tel Aviv Shooting Become Israel’s New Normal?
As long as the shooter’s mentality remains a mystery, we can’t know for sure.
January 12, 2016
The myth of rabbinic incitement.
Ever since the July firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed three, the Israeli left—not to mention American and European media—have insinuated that the Jews charged with this terrorist deed were influenced by endemic and inflammatory rhetoric on the part of religious-Zionist rabbis. The truth, writes Evelyn Gordon, is very different:
As long as the shooter’s mentality remains a mystery, we can’t know for sure.
The myth of rabbinic incitement.
Riyadh executed a Shiite clergyman to send a message to Tehran, and Washington.
It may have had something to do with early Christianity.
Divine judgment vs. a benevolent nature.
Ever since the July firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed three, the Israeli left—not to mention American and European media—have insinuated that the Jews charged with this terrorist deed were influenced by endemic and inflammatory rhetoric on the part of religious-Zionist rabbis. The truth, writes Evelyn Gordon, is very different:
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