Exactly this. This is not a person who is a rational Democrat, or a rational liberal, or a rational anybody representative of anything. This is a guy who's probably mentally ill who has latched onto this issue as a conduit for acting out. He could have done the same thing because he hated a certain movie. Who knows. But his moving forward some sort of peace process was nowhere on his mind, so it would unfair to hold the Palestinian people at large, or even leadership tasked with representing Palestinian interests, responsible for his action.