Keep God out of it

摘要

The sight of Jews lying dead in a Jerusalem synagogue, their prayer-shawls and holy books drenched in pools of blood, might be drawn from the age of pogroms in Europe. Sadly, it is an appallingly modern episode, the latest in the interminable tragedy of Jew and Arab in the promised land. The slaughter at the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue-four worshippers and a policeman were killed by two Palestinian men wielding knives and guns, who were in turn shot dead-is hardly the deadliest event in the annals of Israeli-Palestinian violence. And it pales in comparison to the mass slaughter taking place across the border in Syria and in other parts of the Middle East.