The organizations that claim to represent the Palestinian people always manage to put themselves and their supposed cause in the wrong before the whole world.
There is no justification for the attack on a synagogue on Friday, which left many dead.
To celebrate the assassination afterwards is obscene.
Even the United Nations, notoriously critical of Israel, unequivocally condemned the act.
That should actually give the Palestinians food for thought.
That doesn't mean that Israel's new government shouldn't also be criticized.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents himself as a strong politician who at the same time acts calmly.
His warning to the Israelis not to resort to vigilantism, but to leave it up to the government to react to Friday's attack and other attacks, fit into this picture.
In practice, however, it has been shown that Netanyahu is in charge of the government, but that his radical coalition partners set the agenda.
The government's announced punishment of relatives of terrorist sponsors stretches the undeniable right to self-defense too far.
Vigilante justice is facilitated
It is also deeply worrying that the government is beginning to undermine the state's monopoly on the use of force.
How else is one to understand that in response to Palestinian violence, it should be made easier for Israeli private individuals to acquire weapons?!
This facilitates the very vigilantism against which Netanyahu had warned.
But here, too, the head of government was unable to assert himself.
Where such a “liberal” weapons policy can lead has long been evident in the USA.
There is a danger that the Israeli government, due to the ideological blindness of some of its members, will lead its country in a direction that not only endangers external security but also democracy.
That should worry Israel's friends in particular.