All we want to do is grieve — for the loss of innocent lives, and over the mind-numbing, vicious, brutal, bloody evidence of the depths to which human beings can sink.

We want to mourn for the families, the worlds torn apart.

We want to scream at the injustice.

We want to fume at the way the murder of Jews at prayer by Palestinian terrorists somehow gets misrepresented, in some cases flatly misreported, as an Israeli sin — as death that we brought upon ourselves. We struggle to follow the “logic” of such false reporting, but it seems to revolve around the “crime” of some Jewish activists provoking the Muslim world by seeking the right for Jews to pray at the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount — a demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clarified almost daily he has no intention of accepting.

That “crime,” and the fact that a Palestinian bus driver for the Egged Israeli cooperative was found hanged in a bus on Sunday night. The police ruled out foul play, and an autopsy pointed to suicide, but why would the facts get in the way of a good pretext for further anti-Jewish incitement?

There has been much criticism of the Israeli leadership in recent weeks for pointing the finger of blame at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as the terror wave has risen in Jerusalem, when it is argued that Hamas and other extremist Palestinian groups are the primary terrorism-inflamers. But Abbas and his loyalists have emphatically swung to the extremes in the last few weeks — the relative moderates legitimizing terrorism. The PA chief accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza from the UN General Assembly podium less than two months ago. Last week, he warned against settlers and extremists “contaminating” Al-Aqsa Mosque. His Fatah loyalists have published cartoons and Facebook posts hailing and encouraging terrorism, and encouraged “days of rage” to defend the purportedly threatened Al-Aqsa. He hailed the would-be assassin of Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a prime advocate of Jewish and Muslim prayer on the sacred mount, as a martyr.

Read the article in full at the Times of Israel