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Source: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-friend-taylor-force-is-dead/
My Friend Taylor Force Is Dead
(Times of Israel) David Simpkins - Taylor Force was a model of "America's finest." He was handsome, articulate, brilliant, and exuded an aura of pure positive energy. He was murdered in cold blood by a West Bank Palestinian. Taylor is dead because of a lot of misleading ideas about exactly what goes on in Israel. There is a belief that if the Palestinians don't want to live with us, it's because of something we Jews did to cause this. The world believes that we, the Jewish-Israeli people, are to blame if Palestinians attack us because we are to blame for their frustration. This is simply not true or realistic. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found in a poll conducted last December that 2/3 of all Palestinians support the knife attacks against Israelis. Not everyone is willing to risk their lives and stab you themselves, but they actively support and cooperate with the ones who do. The writer is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer who lives in Israel.