…The good news is the decision by the government to boost troop presence, which is temporary but to consider as well fresh bypass roads in Judea and Samaria. One was planned years ago to avoid Beit Umar and El-Arub on the road from Jerusalem to Hevron between Gush Etzion intersection and Hevron. There was such a plan during the last intifada but it was nixed by Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai before he was run out for sexual aggression against female staffers in the army.

Of course if it is built, world antiJewry will howl like jackals at this last act of racist apartheid in Israel but so what? They have been yowling since the mid-1970s. So what else is new?

The good news was also a government plan to do exactly what yours truly suggested last week: the families of the killers should be immediately, with the clothes their backs, pushed through a gate in the Gaza rectangle…