"There are many other people that are saying that the Palestinian society today is choosing the extremist side, under the influence of Isis, as the atmosphere of the way the youngsters are being raised, and unfortunately also when they're raised under the very hard incitement of the Palestinian Authority".
The trouble is that while one or other of the extremist sides wins each battle, always at the expense of the moderates, neither side ever wins the war, meaning to dominate the other.
Some evidence of that also comes from the eerie silence on social media, from the extremists' side.
A day after the "Daily Show" star Jon Stewart announced plans to stage an ambitious public rally to counter what he identified as extremists on either side of the political spectrum, specifics were in short supply on Friday, with most of the details still to be worked out.
There was no independent way to ascertain whether the the killers - described by a survivor as wearing "army dress" - were Indian soldiers, or extremists from either side of the line seeking to destabilise the area or taking vengeance for some local act.
"There are not that many extremists on my side of the argument.
Othman and Laith were both secular, and despised the extremist militias on each side of Iraq's civil war, but the ethnic conflict had led them increasingly to quarrel, to the point that one of them — usually Laith — would refuse to speak to the other.
Othman and Laith were both secular, and despised the extremist militias on each side of Iraq's civil war, but the ethnic conflict had led them increasingly to quarrel, to the point that one of them usually Laith would refuse to speak to the other.
E J Dionne in the Washington Post wrote: "The mainstream media and the Obama administration must stop cowering before a right wing that has persistently forced its propaganda to be accepted as news by convincing traditional journalists that 'fairness' requires treating extremist rants as 'one side of the story'".
