It is beyond wrong to adopt the attitude that invocations of national anger and solidarity are in themselves, in any way wrong or morally questionable. The author rightly knows, or should know, that the retaliation that the Zionist leaders called for was almost universally and without exception directed against the terrorists that perpetrated the murders, and not against the Palestinian people. If he has a problem with such retaliation, he should have the courage to say so-- although such retaliation is not only morally well justified, but obligatory. Violence against innocents is neither invoked nor implied by calls for the use of military force, and to suggest otherwise is almost to equate that force with the most despicable murder. Clearly some fail to make the distinction, and the killers are among them-- but our society as a whole has never failed to, and it should not begin now. We can, we always have, and we must persist, in preserving a national discourse of strength and an intolerance for murder-- notwithstanding the discomfort of leftists such as the author with the idea of strength.

Stop the game of demanding high standards from Israel and low from the Palestianians and Arabs. If the riots and the murders, etc of the Arabs were met with the same they might think twice about executing them. Acting with less vigor has not brought peace - the story of inflaming things is nonsense - they are inflamed whenever the Arabs/Palestinians - want - Sisi in Egypt knows what he is doing. When the Arabs stop incitement maybe you can ask the same for the other side. to hold someone to higher standards is discrimination

Ynet has a lot to say about the various right wing Jewish crimes in the past against Arabs and is using this latest horro to remind everyone of the danger of the right. What they are missing is that the members of this latest murder gang are LaFamilia Betar members, with a criminal past, and no connection with the settler movement nor with the Religeous Zionist movement. Shuld we outlaw Betar as we outlawed Kahans's party? What is the difference between Betar and the so called Jewish underground? Stop with the self hate already! We have enough on our plate. Even so, Arab murders against Jews have become so common place that there is hardly a ripple in the world press when it happens, so why, I ask, is everyone so quick to get on the band wagon and point fingers at the settlers? This is a case of a witch hunt which is the product of our peoples age old enemy: Jewish self hate.

support release of perps of this murder too ?

The don't you get it? The entire nation, the entire Jewish Global community is HORRIFIED!!!!!!!! You can tell the difference because we're not giving out sweets. And as far as the incitement goes, Hamas will use any excuse to escalate tensions. They don't care about Muhammad, only in that he's given them more justification to wipe us out.

The first item to be denounced should be Bibi's cowardice, now bordering on treason ! But who is going to prosecute him ?! Verily, the Jewish state merits the bitter destiny it is about to experience. Only the strong survive in the Middle East. Yellow-bellied leadership condemns the entire Israeli nation to unspeakable suffering and derision by its arch-enemies.

The moral vacuum resulting from the high court and their henchmen’s - like the writer - social activism is what caused this trouble. The leftist supreme court destroyed the rule of law willing to and intentionally with its social activism to impose their views on society - all for just one reason.... LeFTIST POWER HUNGER They created a situation where the official –read extremist leftwing papers – create double standards, where jews are expected to hold the red paprty booklet, roll over and play dead and arabs are glorified for their terror. I did not, do not and will not hear him denouncing arab mks, or europeans when demonizing jews. Also the left's constant justifications of arab violence and their demonization and vilification as fascist or primitive, savage of whomever does not agree with them, reminds me of dictatorial demonization. I only hear hypocrite selfrightious calls for certain people not to defend themselves… but then again they live far away for the leftist tax sucking communist elite republic of tel aviv

Just read the most extreme commenters and talkbackers to see where this is going.

there were indeed calls to avenge the murders of the Israeli teens, by they were overwhelmingly targeted at Hamas, a terrorist organization that supports kidnapping and murder of innocent civilians. The calls for revenge were not meant for targeting innocent Arab civilians. get the record straight- we are NOT them! We did not hand out sweets when this poor arab boy was murdered, a murder that would NOT have happened had the Muslim Arabs not brutally murdered those Jewish children!

in my opinion, the Arabs need to suffer in such a way that they hand over the murderers of the three Israeli teens. Obviously, someone in the West Bank (Arab) was protecting and hiding these murderers and helping them to escape. To me, they are the worst kind of coward there is.

The murderers of Mohammed are not part of any known group, so how does he have a cue as to why they acted so cruelly

We are not sick people, the problem is the Leftists. Leftists as a rule are either corrupt or insane. Whichever, they are also psychopathic meaning they have no morals (allowing them to seize power) and that they see nothing wrong with condemning Jews for graffiti or feeling angry, and at the same time supporting the release of Arabs who murder Jewish children.

The reports of Jewish Israelis marching through Jerusalem chanting " Death to Arabs". That happened the night before the Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and burned. Number 3, how did you miss that at least one of the perpetrators is from a settlement? I feel sorry for the people who have let hate and prejudice build up in you to the point that you will try to justify the burning alive of a teenager snatched off the street when he was on his way to a mosque to pray.

Game of words;19 and 16 years old Jewish victims are called children a 15 years old Palestinian victim, a youth ,...

It was the Leftists led by Peres who gave Hamas rockets to launch at Tel Aviv. Now, Likud, Yisrael Beytenu and Jewish Home voters are being drafted to save the Leftist draft-dodgers. You'd expect the Leftists to admit they were wrong, but they can't. Instead, we hear how a group of Leftist thugs physically attacked Minister Bennet when he dared speak at a conference organized by Haaretz. The Leftists will do anything rather than admit they were wrong.

An Israeli version of Putin would not put up with any B.S. from "palestinians". Their punishment for the very first rocket would be swift and devastating. "Palestinians" would have plenty of motivation to promptly leave our land.

More from the (bend over and grab your ankles crowd).the "always again". Bleeding hearts,,breast beating spineless wonders are in a tipsy.