Words.

In Washington, D.C., two Israeli Embassy staff were gunned down in the street on May 21. They were assassinated as they were leaving the Capital Jewish Museum by a man who fired 21 bullets into the bodies of the young couple, whose names were Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky.

The man waited for the police to arrive. When they did, he pulled out a red keffiyeh and started shouting, “Free free Palestine.” Some time later, when speaking to investigators, the man said: “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”

Words.

A couple days later, in the obligatory reports about the dark origins of the alleged killer’s hate, it was revealed that he had written a manifesto titled “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home.” The manifesto railed against “atrocities committed by the Israelis against Palestine” and called for “armed action.” Violence is “the only sane thing to do,” the manifesto said.

Previously, the alleged killer had many years of involvement with something called the Party for Liberation and Socialism. Among other things, that group has celebrated Hamas’ slaughter of 1,200 Jews in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and published a statement on that date declaring: “Resistance to apartheid and fascist-type oppression is not a crime! …The actions of the resistance over the course of the last day is a morally and legally legitimate response to........

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