Evidently the Israeli leadership is asleep at the wheel. If I was surrounded by people that want me dead, and they did in fact assault me, my response would be immediate, irrevocable, and violent. With Jewish history in mind, the idea that they have restrictions on the publics ability to "keep and Bear arms" is absolute insanity. Israel seems to be a shadow of it's former self.
And if there are American generals there to "advise them is laughable, my guess is they are there to hold back the IDF. The US is not able to defend it's own boarders much less tell another country how to defend theirs.