Which, of course, will not be news to any Lifeboaters, but the difference in coverage between two apartheid staters shot dead and THOUSANDS killed by snipers, bombs, missiles, drones, starvation, disease is massive.

The media whores will say this was murder; a man decided to shoot people who have nothing to do with the crimes in Gaza. Well, the only difference is the weapon of choice (pistol,presumably, rather than 2000 bomb) and the location (US rather than Gaza).

As you say, this is very conveniently going to take all the media attention just as some western states are starting to stand up to the apartheid state as they starve the population of Gaza. It's hard not to be cynical about it all.