Am I supposed to be sorry I "slandered" the mass murdering settler in today's shootings.
My problem with SOME of the settlers began with the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel on November 4, 1995 by an ultra-Orthodox religious zealot, Yigal Amir. The assassin was not a lone psychotic gunman but, instead, was a young man nurtured within Israel’s far-right religious institutions. After the murder, he was hailed as a hero by many, not only in Israel but among kindred spirits in the United States.
Actually, the man convicted of killing Prime Minster Rabin was raised in a Tel Aviv suburb -- I don't remember the one; perhaps it is the same one that today's shooter came from. I agree with you that he was not a lone psychotic gunman, but from what I've read he was a tool of Israel's intelligence agency, which placed an agent in the West Bank to provoke Jews to take extremist positions.
Shooting the Prime Minister was a terrible crime, but it was not based on his learning in Israel's "far-right" religious institutions. Rather, it was based on the teachings of the provacateur, who invented secret initiation ceremonies, passed out leaflets describing the Prime Minister as a Nazi, and took other inflammatory actions that made this psycho believe that he was part of a larger movement.
What is more, after the shooting of Prime Minister Rabin, Netanyahu's lead in the election nearly evaporated, and he managed to just squeak by Shimon Peres to become Prime Minister. Very often, political assassinations have the opposite effect of what is intended because they mobilize the opposition.
>>The assassin was not a lone psychotic gunman but, instead, was a young man nurtured within Israel’s far-
right religious institutions.
Nurtured by Avishai Raviv, an shin-bet agent provocateur, in a plot to discredit the right wing in Israel. A very effective plot, I may add.