Jonathan Freedland: No one excuses zionist atrocities

In a comment piece criticising Ken Livingstone for equating Hamas with Likud, here's Jonathan Freedland:

Since the intifada began five years ago, 3,600 Palestinians have been killed. No one is making excuses for that

Does he never read the Telegarph, the Times, or, er, the Guardian? Here he is again in the same article

Imagine these cases for a moment. A British man emigrates to Israel; a few years later he might get called up for military service; he might even end up in an operation that results in the killing of civilians. And then there is another British man who arrives in Israel for the sole purpose of staging a suicide bombing. (This latter case is not hypothetical: Britons Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif did exactly that in 2003.) Is there not a moral difference between these two actions? Why does Livingstone say they are equivalent?

Freedland's British man would have to be woefully (and wilfully) ignorant not to know that Israel targets civilians.