…And here is Peres in typical fashion insinuating that the right is a vast conspiracy of evil people fanning the flames of hatred, when there is no fanning at all. Israelis need no fanning to form a negative opinion of Arabs, and in any case what politician does that? I know of no politician who stirs up hatred for Arabs. The right fears them and rightly so, but that is not the same as fanning the flames of hatred.

Overall, it has been a miserable past few days. The horror of that death by fire of that Arab infant licensed, and hardly for the first time, the Ishmael-clones in Judea and Samaria, the teenagers, to wrap their heads and faces in their desert keffiyas and throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at civilians and police and soldiers in a slew of locations since Friday…