A 13-year-old boy was viciously stabbed while riding his bicycle through his Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev on Monday. The knife attack, the third of the day around the Holy City, was the 22nd such attack since the beginning of October.

As horrific as the attack was, the more startling fact is the age of the young boy’s wannabe killers, two Arab cousins, just 13 and 15.

Moments after the attack, police confronted the 15-year-old. Still holding the machete, he refused to lay it down and instead charged the officers and was fatally shot. The 13-year-old was hit by a car while trying to escape. As he lay squirming in his own blood on the road, while paramedics tried to save his young life, an Israeli passerby decided to film the incident while shouting, “Die! Die! You son of a whore!”

How has it come to this? Can this swamp of hatred be drained by a clever political bargain? Or is Israeli-Palestinian peace hopeless?

What motivated two children to grab knives, lay in wait, and then begin stabbing a Jewish child? What kind of home life taught them it was OK to take a human life?

Were their parents absorbed in the Palestinian media blitz that intentionally distorts events for propaganda and demonizes Israelis as being guilty of crimes against their people? Or did these boys learn their motivating hate from propaganda in their schools? Or was it their childhood television programs where martydom is glorified by Mickey Mouse-like characters? Or did they finally decide to act after absorbing the deluge of Facebook and Twitter images and videos applauding the bloody acts of those murderous “martyrs” who have gone before?

Is the religious establishment to blame, where the so-called “holy elite” persuade the young people that God requires them to kill, and if necessary, be killed to “protect al-Aqsa”? Were they on a holy mission, convinced they needed to kill a 13-year-old in order to protect Muslim holy sites from Israeli aggression?

Most likely, it was the cumulative effect of all these influences. The sad truth revealed in this incident is that a whole generation of young Palestinians is being bred to hate.

But what about the Israeli? The one who saw a collapsed heap of quivering, broken flesh and bones crumpled upon the street and shouted at him to die. Of course we are outraged by the cold-blooded killers. And we can certainly understand Jewish anger at the murderous enemy who seeks their destruction. But surely this 13-year-old was the result of a rotten society rather than part of its cause. Obviously, the Israeli also carries a hatred that reveals “peace in the Middle East” as the cliché it is.

Israelis are fed up with living in fear of being attacked—or seeing their child hacked and stabbed—for no other reason than being a Jew. Scores are signing up for firearms licenses to protect themselves and those around them. Many are taking self-defense lessons to defend specifically against knife assailants. Even in Tel Aviv, pepper spray canisters are flying off shelves faster than they can be replaced.

Israeli media carries public service announcements warning you not to absorb yourself in a handheld media device while walking the streets. Why? Because you need to be alert, sizing up other pedestrians as potential attackers. The government has tried to instill calm by putting more police on the streets and installing metal detectors in and around the Old City of Jerusalem. But when attackers use anything from a screwdriver to a potato peeler to attack, there is only so much the police can do.

When an Israeli walks to the other side of the street because an Arab is walking toward him, how much hope can we have for a broader peace between Palestinians and Jews? Doesn’t this go deeper than summits and meetings and negotiations? Don’t we need a healing of minds in the Middle East?

“Looking at the ongoing violence in Jerusalem today—the absolute inability of the involved parties to solve things by peaceful means—we can easily see how one half of Jerusalem shall be taken captive in the very near future,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry. He was referring to a very specific prophecy that concerns the immediate future of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The Bible prophesies that the city of Jerusalem is about to split down ethnic lines from east to west. Why? Because Palestinian-Israeli hatred is about to explode.

The more you scrutinize Bible prophecy, the more shocked you will be at how timely and accurate it is about the situation in Israel. This ancient book not only predicted Israel’s current situation, but it predicts it’s future as well. And if the Bible can correctly forecast the existence of the Jewish state, the division of Jerusalem, the terror afflicting the Middle East, can it correctly forecast what happens next?

“We will see [the] prophecy in Zechariah 14:1-2 fulfilled very soon,” Mr. Flurry wrote. “And while it will involve some sickening atrocities and bloodshed, it is directly connected to the greatest news this world has ever heard!”

There is hope for the cauldron of hatred and murder in Israel. And that hope lies not in a political process, but in the Word of man’s Creator. To learn in detail what will come to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the glimmer of hope ahead, read Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy.