Reply #27: I think these ones were just garden variety nutjobs...

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...as opposed to the religious nationalistic nutjobs. The bit where he said 'The government always argues that the assailants are mentally unstable.' has got me curious, though, because I've never seen those arguments myself and would be interested to find out if that's true, though of course, reading through this thread, I see that I'll probably open myself up to accusations of loving Hamas for even asking ;)

What strikes me as a bit amusing about the reactions to this is that some folk who are getting angry because they think others have automatically jumped on the 'Palestinian hating, right-wing extremist' bandwagon when it comes to motive are the same folk who automatically jump on the 'terrorist, Israeli hating' bandwagon when an Arab carries out a crime against an Israeli-Jew without waiting even a nano-second to find out if it's a 'domestic'* crime totally unconnected to the occupation...

* Just coz I don't know how better to describe it, 'domestic crime' is crime that happens everywhere and where the motive is totally unrelated to any nationalist aims...

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