They were young and idealistic, and devoted their lives to peace.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim worked in diplomacy and conflict resolution at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

They were gunned down in cold blood last month, just steps from the US Capitol.

Less than two weeks later, a Colorado man firebombed a peaceful demonstration calling for the release of Israeli hostages — injuring at least 12 people, including a Holocaust survivor.

While the war in Gaza is thousands of miles away, its violence has sadly come home.

The attacks in DC and Colorado were not isolated; they are the latest in a growing pattern of rhetoric shifting from outrage to incitement, from slogans to direct calls for violence in Western cities.

And those calls are terrifyingly being answered, and

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