Is there any rational person who doesn’t believe that level of political discourse in Israel is over the top in terms of personal attacks and slander? Even the the U.S., which has a long history of vituperative politics, doesn’t even approach the level hatred and incitement found in this last Israeli election. Whatever was said and however it was intended, it requires no stretch to imagine that the suspect or anyone like him might come to believe that physically attacking a political opponent, even a 100 year old Rabbi, was doing G-d’s work. I sure that this fellow thought of himself as Pinchas striking down an enemy of G-d and Klal Yisroel.
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