(New York Times) Bret Stephens - For the third time in two weeks, Palestinians in Gaza have set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing, through which they get medicine, fuel and other humanitarian essentials from Israel. There's a pattern here - harm yourself, blame the other - and it deserves to be highlighted amid the torrent of morally blind, historically illiterate criticism to which Israelis are subjected every time they defend themselves against violent Palestinian attack. Why is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven? No decent Palestinian society can emerge from the culture of victimhood, violence and fatalism symbolized by the Gaza protests.
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