After rudely criticizing Netanyahu over construction in Israeli capital, Hillary Clinton quickly returned to the customary tone, emphasizing “unshakable bond” between the United States and Israel.

If only Israeli could break that bond and conduct an independent policy.

If anyone thought that Arabs riot in the ‘occupied’ West Bank and perhaps in Jerusalem: last night, Arabs hurled stones at Jewish buses in Jaffo. The mode of Arab-Jewish interaction common in the territories surfaced a couple of miles from Tel Aviv.

Despite Israel’s efforts to win the notoriously pro-Arab Da Silva, the visiting Brazilian president put wreath on Arafat’s tomb but refused a similar ceremony on Herzl’s tomb.

In the Maagar Mochot poll, a whopping 61% of Israeli youngsters answered that Arabs should have equal political rights with Jews. Even among religious Jews, 18% went against halacha in welcoming Arabs into the Knesset.

Overall, about half of Israeli youth remain sane and reject the Arabs’ right to vote the Jewish state out of existence.

Only 31 Arabs are arrested out of the hundreds of rioters who hurled rocks at police in East Jerusalem.

Most of the Arabs wore masks, which will make it difficult to identify them in court.

A crowd of criminals who defy law-enforcement officers and purposely evade identification is an enemy formation, but the police shrunk from shooting at the crowd, possibly out of fear of prosecution. Arabs know that rioters usually go unpunished, so they engage in riots as national sport.

The riots are instigated by the Islamic Movement, an official organization which the Israeli government refuses to ban despite decades of incitement.

Those who think that the Arabs would be satisfied with East Jerusalem might learn from the fact that the current round of riots was caused by the renovation of the famous Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.