Religion, religion, religion. It warps and twists the mind until it takes control over you, your dignity is lost and you start to act and behave in strange ways, mostly not with malintent towards others, but when religious beliefs become extreme then the behaviour also becomes more extreme and ever stranger and finally we have acts like this. Why do secular folk never hear "voices". Why do secular folk never experience stigmata. Why are secular folk never "abducted" by "angels from heaven". Religion is in my humble opinion,the bane of humanity.

For doing a job well done! 12 years after his 1st crime, he gets caught. Good job! A Palestinian looks at someone by mistake and he is shot the same day, his parents house demolished after hes murdered, etc... Face it, this guy continued murdering only because he got a free pass for being a settler.

Do you know what the "majority of extremist settlers do"? How many convicted "extremist settlers" are there. Now let's see: how many convicted and killed MUSLIM TERRORISTS has the combined forces of CANADA and US killed in Afghanistan and Iraq? What is the religion of all the Somali pirates? Thought so. FINALLY one can find a Jewish criminal and this seemingly absolves 100,000 of Muslim terrorists worldwide? Not a chance "george" from "canada". We KNOW who the real enemy is and we KNOW who is the real terrorist here.

...and of course, ESPECIALLTY common and VERY CHARACTERISTC amongst Muslims. They hate everything: Jews, Christians, Budhists, generally every non-,and incredibly they HATE EACH OTHER for not being Muslim enough or for not practicing the "right" kind of Islam. Man, I guess Israel just has to lay back and enjoy the Muslim suicide show on a global scale!

Send him back to America in exchange for Jonathan Pollard

secular folks do experience mental breakdowns including schizophenia and other major mental illnesses which bring on various kinds of delusions so I think you are ill advised to blame all such problems on religious beliefs (if that was your intention). As to belief systems, many people have experienced events which cannot be explained by rational explanations yet these same people would not be considered delusionary in their ordinary day-to-day lives. I wanted to write this (I am a retired psychologist) as I think there are other, important aspects, left out by your heated commentary -- no disrespect intended.

quicksand, tthey found their new cause celebre. Where is the evidence? Where is the proof? You havent got any..but seeing that Rabin is being quickly forgotten and even despised by the people you found your new..."WE GOT TO HATE THEM SETTLERS", fall guy. You are the ghetto Jews thus you will never ever be a nation, but a group of losers.

Most of you posters are hypocrites! Samir Kuntar is a brutal man and was freed! Abbas financed Black September! Many more Arab scum has been freed!

Yes, they are a beautiful people :-)

Israel is an extremely flawed democracy. The week-plus long denial of council is just one sign that freedom in Israel is hanging by a thread. This is not the USA (which is a moderately flawed democracy) or Sweden.

Shame on israel , There is lot of discrimination towards phalestine. Israel is a extremist state

again all in the name of religion so remind me agin why i want to be a part of a racist religion

Thank you! I want to see this guy behind bars for a LONG time, as well as every other killer or criminal in our society, whatever their motive. But, the few hate crimes commited in Israel by Jews, which are investigated, publicly condemned, met with great shame, where the perpertrator is tried and sentenced, is NOT at all the same as international terrorist activity groups or lone suicide bombers who, if ever brought to justice, it is most certainly not by their own government and most certainly not with a feeling of great shame for the irrevocable damage done. For goodness sakes, we just saw the Lockerbie mastermind freed and returing home to a hearty cheery welcome. Let's NOT even begin to muddle this aspect of the debate!