Bret Stephens’s dangerous half-picture
Condemning the few episodes of Jewish lawlessness as if comparable to non-stop Palestinian Arab terrorism-or pretending that statehood will cure it - is not only ignorant, it is downright dangerous. Opinion
Assessment
This opinion piece argues that Bret Stephens dangerously misrepresents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by equating rare Jewish lawlessness with systematic Palestinian terrorism and by suggesting statehood as a simple solution. The critique centers on the risk of obscuring the fundamental asymmetry between the two sides' violence. Readers should watch for whether Stephens or others respond to this accusation of a distorted narrative.