Just. Stop. Don, post facts, stop with the pontificating. Trying to stake a claim on moral high ground isn't going to fly here. Steve, ignore him.

Tonight on a PBS special report Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, dignitary and politician, noted that these atrocities of rape and murder happen daily in the Palestinian territories and few notice, but when it happens in Israel, the whole world takes notice. She is correct - there is a war by accretion, the slow deadly force used against the Palestinian population by Israeli police and citizens, a few here, a few there, but no world moral outrage to that.

What happened in Israel isn't justified in any way, even when compared to the assault on Palestinians, as much as some might wish it were so. The old schoolyard adage of "two wrongs don't make a right" applies, as much as any more sophisticated law.