…Another drive-by shooting. We had them 15 years ago and the solution was denying the roads to Arab vehicles.
The government huffed and puffed and announced a closure for 700,000 Arabs, which I think makes little sense. He also answered in the classical Zionist language of “building more homes.” He ordered up another 42 in Kiryat Arba — which some say were already on the drawing boards anyway. Others said today that the alleged blockade of the town Bani Naim, where Hallel-Yaffa’s murderer came from, is non-existent.

In any case, I hate when they do that. In response to these murders, we get back at them by building more homes for Jews. I don’t like to think of Jews building homes in Judea as a punishment. It is a right. With all the anti-settlement hatred in Israel and the world about the post-‘67 settlements, there has never been a case in which the new communities dispossessed Arabs from their homes; entered and cleaned them out, dumped their furniture and possessions onto the street and made them homeless. The settlements were built on barren hilltops. No ancient Palestinian was deprived of his ancestral sod…