On the menu today: In the grand sweep of history, one brutal murder of a six-year-old in a town in Illinois this weekend will not be widely remembered. And yet, the horrific story of a 71-year-old landlord stabbing a Palestinian-American first-grader to death offers some hard lessons about how extreme events and runaway tensions can radicalize seemingly ordinary people and make them commit unspeakable, shocking acts of violence upon the innocent. That poor kid had nothing to do with Hamas or the events in the Middle East, but he paid the highest price anyway — all because this nutjob landlord decided he wanted to strike back, and any Palestinian Muslim would do.
The Hamas massacre shocked Americans, and the campus radicals coming out of the woodwork to blame Israel and make excuses for terrorists outraged us even more. The one-two punch of a massacre and watching so many young people attempt to justify that massacre quickly turned the country into a tinderbox. The current moment is further evidence for why leaders must not use fear and anger as tools to accumulate power — they're like nitroglycerin: far too unstable and dangerous to be handled casually or ...
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Israel Makes Its Move 
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