Google the name of the young Israeli parents murdered in their car last night...

...Outside Israel, the fact of the murder is barely known for the usual reason that there has been so little interest by news channels in reporting it. We assume that will change if and when some act perceived as retaliatory can be identified and blamed on Israelis. Meanwhile, having just Googled the name of the murdered couple - Henkin, a truly distinguished family - it's terribly sad, but not at all surprising to anyone aware of how these things work that almost no non-Israeli news sites come up.

After the attack [Image Source]

Arnold/Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
02 October '15..

Understanding the mindset of Israelis on the morning after a murder-by-shooting attack on an anonymous vehicle traveling one of the roads of the Samarian hills doesn't come easy to certain sorts of onlookers.

Those for instance who responded within minutes to the cold-blooded killings on Thursday night by casually, thoughtlessly, coldly dismissing the victims as "colonists" in the way that one especially loathsome commentator, an Arab with a vile track-record of similar publicly-expressed hatefulness did.

And as did another, the privileged son of an American family with Jewish roots (whose father has for years been one of Hilary Clinton's closest advisers) and who recently was awarded the special 'honor' of being banned by the speaker of the German federal parliament, from trying again to enter the Bundestag; in Germany they have an acute sensitivity to, and relatively little patience for, boorish anti-Jewish extremism.

Outside Israel, the fact of the murder is barely known for the usual reason that there has been so little interest by news channels in reporting it.

We assume that will change if and when some act perceived as retaliatory can be identified and blamed on Israelis. Meanwhile, having just Googled the name of the murdered couple - Henkin, a truly distinguished family - it's terribly sad, but not at all surprising to anyone aware of how these things work that almost no non-Israeli news sites come up. Here's an archived copy of the search result as at 10:00 am, Friday morning. It speaks for itself. Or perhaps better to say it weeps.

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