"Like any people, we Israelis tend to see our side’s flaws as unremarkable, and the other’s as unforgivable. We tell ourselves that a few posters don’t mean anything; that neither Raidman nor her toddler will be hauling a Kalashnikov up to the roof anytime soon. That our textbooks tell the truth.

   When people kill each other for decades, though, the hate and the fear tend to flow both ways.Whether or not we want to talk about it, there exists mounds and mounds of evidence that Israelis are just as capable of hate and fear as anybody else.

   Consider this: After hearing his [Israeli] interviewee fantasize about killing [Palestinian] 10 year olds, Yediot’s reporter blithely changed the subject back to fashion..." Emily L. Hauser

Followers of the late Brooklyn-born Rabbi and founder of Jewish anti-Arab movement Meir Kahane pray at his grave at the Givat Shaul cemetery on the outskirts of Jerusalem October 26, 2010 (Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images)

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Why Are Israelis Tone Deaf to Incitement Against Palestinians?

 The Prime Minister of Israel has been known to angrily decry anti-Israel incitement among Palestinians, and he is right to do so. If there's ever to be peace between the two nations, it will have to consist of more than negotiating terms and signing papers—the people involved will have to learn to see and treat each other as human beings, or the paperwork won’t last...READ MORE