The wife of Warren Weinstein, who was kidnapped in Pakistan by Al-Qaida gunmen, marked the first anniversary of his abduction with a plea for his return.
The possibility that a killing rampage by a French gunman was a solo campaign will inject fresh urgency into Western efforts to detect \”self-starter\” or \”lone wolf\” terrorists before they strike.
The settler movement is in serious denial over last week\’s killings of three Palestinians, including 3-month-old Dia Tmeizi. While all settlers publicly condemn the killings, even the most \”mainstream\” don\’t see any connection between the nighttime ambush near Hebron and the incessant cries for \”revenge\” by settlers at funerals, demonstrations and elsewhere.
Twenty thousand mourners, seething with anger, followed the bodies of Binyamin and Talia Kahane through downtown Jerusalem to the Givat Shaul cemetery last Sunday night. Most of them were Orthodox yeshiva students, admirers of Meir Kahane, the assassinated founder of the Jewish Defense League and of the outlawed Kach party. The rabbi\’s son and daughter-in-law, aged 34 and 31 respectively, had been shot by Palestinian gunmen as they drove home from a Jerusalem Shabbat to the West Bank settlement of Kfar Tapuach. Five of their six children were injured.
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