The original sin - "occupation" or being Jewish?

A tweet earlier today shows how deep the idea that "occupation" is the root of all evil has become entrenched in certain circles:

Just BBC news: today's Jerusalem attack a terrible, tragic reminder that ongoing violence of Israeli occupation isn't sustainable
— rachel shabi (@rachshabi) November 18, 2014

Of course, when I called her on it, she said that we need to look at the big picture:

@elderofziyon there is no justification for killing civilians.But there's a wider context here, which must be heeded to avoid more violence
— rachel shabi (@rachshabi) November 18, 2014

Ah, the wider context! Let's look at the wider context.

Every person murdered this morning, by sheer coincidence, was a rabbi.

The Arab world's cartoonists, when they decide to create a caricature of Israel, nearly invariably make them look like this:

How many Israeli prime ministers looked like that?

However, the victims today did have black coats and beards.

Is there any lesson in "wider context" that idiots like Shabi might learn from this?

Does Shabi's "wider context" include attacks on Jews by Arabs before "occupation"? Before 1948? In Syria and Iraq?

Or is that too wide for the open-minded Left crowd to wrap their minds around?

Here is the real "cycle of violence" in the Middle East, and it isn't about violence at all. It is about existence (and not accepting second-class status in the Arab world, as Shabi seems to want to return to.)

The original sin in the Middle East for Arabs isn't "occupation." It is an excuse used by Israel-haters to justify their pre-existing hate.

The original sin is that Jews are asserting their rights to live in their own ancestral homeland in peace and security. And that sin is too much for hundreds of millions of Arabs to bear.