There can be no justification for violence on either Israeli or Palestinian sides. But the egregious attitude is to ignore one side in favor of the other, to excuse Israeli military violence for any reason and to ignore the oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli military.

This kind of idolatry is symptomatic of a "true believer" who will accept no other way of looking at the issue.

Fortunately, there are many Jews, and their number is growing, that see the perversion of the Zionist movement by Netanyhu and his henchmen.

Israel has become a theocracy and has extinguished its earlier socialist movement.