As Linda was trying to state above. A Jew is bound by a negative commandment "THOU SHALT NOT KILL". It is impossible for a Jew to kill any man and claim that it was done in the name of G-d, for how can one kill in G-ds name when one is commanded to not kill. There is a difference between murder and killing. There are times when takeing a life are required, for instance in order to protect the wellbeing of the community from evil terrorists who are trying to kill you. In the case of a person rising up to kill an innocent person we have every right and even an obligation to kill that individual. I dont expect non-Jews to understand. For as it is written, a boor cannot understand the commandments. Only those who have a true heart and a clear mind can find hapiness and truth in the laws of Torah which we so joyously accepted at Sinai. This being said, this inidividual is suffering from a mental illness. There is no Rabbi, no Torah scholor, and no ordinary Jew who can justify this murder religiously. This is the nature of our religion, there is no exception. And Linda, you are right and you have much support from me. Dont let these antisemites ruin your day.

I am a Jew and I know many israelis. Never have I been taught by any of my Rabbis to hate anyone nor to want to destroy or kill. All my Israeli friends tell me the same, they have never been taught to hate an Arab or to want to destroy or kill them. What is obviously true is that the Arabs and the Muslims are innundated each and every day with antisemitic and hate-filled propaganda. The Arab media must censor itself because it is preaching a hatred which will backfire on it. So, basically Jews are not taught hate and death and Muslim/Arabs are taught hate and death.... Where is the outrage?

The singer, Shaaban Abdel Raheem, is an illiterate man whose work was in the Press (traditional ironing of clothes). The fat man is a mocking image of a too innocent naive. Whether his image is true or falsely self-implied,he is mostly perceived by Egyptians as comedian mock. The bottom line is if you chose to distant yourself from your neighbor, you will never understand his culture.

is pretty silly. 1 murderer does not indicate what type of messed up environment he comes from. But many many murderers as are on the arab side, that does in fact point to a generalizeable messed up society as a whole. We imprison our murderers and punish them and criticize them. On the arab side, they praise their murderers and mothers send their children to be murderers. On your tv shows, you teach kids to be martyrs. We don't. We teach kids to be productive and study hard. This is a huge, HUGE difference between our societies. Don't take a single case of some nutty murderer and start generalizing. That's disingenuous at best. Learn to be good people and stop preaching hate. Go do good. Or shut the f-ck up.

Your expectations of how horrible Israelis are come from the lies you hear all around you. Israel is a wonderful country and our people are among the kindest in the world. We are strong but we are kind. And we stay kind and hopeful despite being surrounded by countries like yours that go to great lengths to try killing us and that support people to kill us. We want to end the dispute with the Palestinians - but every time we try we are met with violence and extremism. I am glad you see who we are. I encourage you to challenge people in Syria when they say hateful things about us. Most of what you hear are lies. Thanks for your talkback.

What did we do to you people? We did not ask you to move in to this land? Yet you hate those whom you came to live with, and deny them their heritage, history, rights, and land.... These right wing people only show what many Israelis have in their hearts toward those who inhabit this land from before this whole zionism business started.

THOU SHALT NOT KILL. This was not war, it was cold blooded murder!

There was an excellent talkback from a black South African who told it like it is. The Jews are akin to the black South Africans who were kicked out of their homeland and then when they wanted their land back, the whites refused and were racist. It's so too with the arabs who live in the Jewish homeland of eretz Yisrael. We came back to what is ours and has always been ours. You kicked us out, but your apartheid ways keep you from being friendly neighbors. Now like the black South Africans we need to kick you in the nuts and tell you what the right way of seeing is. Until you can understand that, there will be a standoff. One side will be victorious if you can't leave in peace.

"What is wrong with him trying to be like them? if he was an Arab everyone would keep repeating that he has been a victim of racism and oppression. he would be having so many apologizers." Ummm, and is that not exactly what you're doing?!

this is an example of what can happen to palestinians if the israeli government left jews to take the law into their own hands. it appears jews are capable of unleashing greater and more vicious terror on the palestinians if individuals were allowed to defend themselves. this should serve as a warning to palestinian terrorists. that even jews can terrorise them if they got the chance. it just happens that israel is an organised society where defence is left to the IDF. otherwise arabs can have it very rough in the hands of jews.

for palestinians and arabs who read this and feel disgusted...this is what jews feel when they see a news article about a suicide bomber recording himself on video prior to committing his act. both are killers who enjoy taking innocent blood. both are on the same level. garbage. both may be mentally ill, but there is no reason for the sane to support the mentally ill killers. there is NO excuse.

Dear Peter: First of all, fix the situation in your "enlightened " New Zealand, which according to recent UN reports, uses racist discrimination towards the indigenous minorities. Then - when you fhave finished - return to this blog to teach us morals .

The 'zionism business' - as you call it - started 4000 years ago, and it is just on its begining! Return to your homeland, arabia, the Land of Israel is Jewish!

It doesn't matter that he is mentally ill. He needs to be punished severely.