Sorry to have not commented on this until now. I don’t remember hearing about this when it happened. Part of the dark underbelly of US-Israeli-Arab relations that isn’t reflected in most of the headlines. It seems likely the truth is as you say—that it’s practically impossible for any party in this decades-long mess to be free of guilt, and that some Israeli individual or part of the military or government is to blame for this.

It’s always inspiring to see people stand up bravely for what they believe in, and hard to reconcile when they pay for it with their lives.