On November 18, 2014, two Palestinians carrying butcher knives, axes, and guns stormed a synagogue in West Jerusalem during morning prayers.  They killed five people, four of them rabbis, and injured a number of other worshipers.  Praise for the attack came from both Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as did cautious, equivocal claims of credit for the incident. This attack was but one of the number of assaults by Palestinians driving cars into Israeli civilians, knife attacks, and stabbing, like that on December 3, 2014 by a Palestinian teenager against shoppers in the Rami Levy supermarket, in the Mishor Adumim Industrial Park, that employs both Israelis and Palestinians. Not surprisingly, Khaled Mashaal, the chief of the political bureau of Hamas, from his safe home in Qatar, perversely blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks.  The best that can be said of Mashaal is that he makes...(Read Full Article)