Sulu Current: Dubai: the warrior-victims strike again?

Western commentators seem to have found it hard to decide how to react to the assassination of Mahmoud al-Zahar, the Palestinian leader of the Islamist Hamas movement, in a Dubai hotel room on 20 January. ... On the other hand, it is a state that is defined by victimhood - it sees itself as the only rational response to the age-old scourge of anti-Semitism. Although these two elements coexist in Israeli society they are often in tension with one another. ...