There is no excuse for the killing of two Israeli embassy workers | Kenneth Roth

Critics of Israel's atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors of that violence - not Israeli civilians Israel's campaign of bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza is inexcusable. It reflects a massive war crime, as the international criminal court has already charged, and arguably genocide. But it in no sense justifies the murder of two young Israeli embassy workers in Washington by a man who then chanted: "Free, free Palestine". Nothing justifies viol...