The person who shouted that should be arrested and charged with incitement and should receive the maximum sentence possible under the law. Defending the homeland by any means necessary is one thing but inciting to kill innocent citizens is unacceptable in an enlightened society. I do not hate the Pals but I certainly have contempt for them because of their stupidity but never for one fleeting moment would I advocate killing them other than in self defence.

Children are not born with such hatred. They were taught it by adults in the settler community or by their Rabbi. Or it is incorporated in the school curriculum.

Who is teaching these kids to hate? And why is the government deaf?

I am a Jew and an Israeli but I left the country in disgust. At the time (1980-90) I believed something might be salvaged of the idealism that seemed to infect the early years of the state of Israel. This was of course before I learned about the profound cyncicism of its military and political leaders and the extent of corruption in the country. I was however aware of the cultural alienation of many Israeli's that causes a real disconnect between their self-image as a 'moral' people and their actions toward whoever they perceive as 'other'. This alienation is not, in my opninion, a consequence of the Holocaust. It has to do directly with the political system, with any political system that enables people who have no idea of a universal ethics to rise to the top. This problem has been exasperated by the power of religious fanatics. In any other country aspiring to be a democracy, religious fanaticism is kept in check. In Israel however, where religious fanaticism is coupled to settler colonialism, it forms a check against morality by continually manouvering the countries political compas away from any permanent settlement with the Palestinians. Thus, while perpetuating the conflict, Israeli leaders have also significantly enlarged a cultural blindness toward the Holocaust and hence toward any comprehension of the hypocrisy of their own policies. The risk here is that having lost the moral high ground in the eyes of the world Israeli leaders will now lose interest in defending it at home. Indeed, the response to this type of fanatical hatred suggests this is already the case.