3 Americans killed in Jerusalem.

It was the leading story on both my local news and the Today show this morning, so I don't know that it's really getting a "ho-hum".

Weird that three of the four were American dual citizens and the fourth was British. I wonder if this particular synagogue catered to them and if that's why it was targeted.

Is that what instigated it? Or was it the realization that ISIL had taken control of vast swaths of land in Syria and Iraq and was threatening Turkey, as well?

I don't have an answer there, I don't really know, I just think that it's more than a couple of barbaric events that have escalated things in ISIL land, which have not and will not happen in Israel/Palestine.

What would you have 'boots on the ground' do? Who would have their feet in those boots? I think the reasons we don't even suggest it are obvious.

First, the Palestinians hate Americans more than the Israelis. They danced quite a party on 9/11, and just by the little known then. That spoke volumes. In the end though, Israel is the Little Satan and we're the Great Satan. I think more boots would just give them more targets. Nothing good would come of it.

Aside from that.. Israel isn't in the business of trying to cause MORE war, where they aren't in 100% total battlefield control of it. This isn't control...so you can figure they are doing everything short of a machine gun on every corner to address this, and they have been. The wall built like a monument to failure is all about stopping this kind of crap by physically preventing Israelis and Palestinians from interacting at all. 'course...Jerusalem is the glaring exception, and wouldn't ya know...now it'll run with blood too. 

Someone decided to murder innocent people..and they didn't have to. That's all I see here. Wanton and obscene murder of innocent people. It's no better and no more "just" when done by Palestinian terrorists than when it's done by Israeli artillery.

"Robert G. Rabil is a professor of political science and the LLS distinguished professor of current affairs at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of the forthcoming Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism (Georgetown University Press, 2014)."

Not really a White House spokesman, but thanks for the effort.