Recently in the international news again as an American was killed: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence-tourist-idUSKCN0WA2FR

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11180746/israel-stabbing-jaffa-tel-aviv

Vox eplainer from October: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11180746/israel-stabbing-jaffa-tel-aviv

Will never be able to understand parents like this:

I hate this. What did anyone do to deserve this Right, let's just stab random Israelis and tourists because its going to make our situation SO much better. talk about shooting themselves in the foot.

Biden condemns the lack of condemnation of these acts:

The stabbing attack occurred along a popular oceanfront boardwalk in southern Tel Aviv not far from where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting.

"In these moments, terror attacks are taking place in streets adjacent to us," said former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres during a meeting with Biden at the Peres Center for Peace.

Biden "condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attack" that took the life of one of his countrymen at the same time, and around the same area, that he was meeting with Peres.

"There is no justification for such acts of terror," the vice president's office said in a statement. Biden "expressed sorrow at the tragic loss of American life."

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted that the attacker, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was fatally shot by police.