The PR campaign about Israel's victimhood has not only distorted thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West, especially in America, but in Israel as well.

In Israel above all, I suspect. In Europe at least, the theme is pretty frayed and threadbare. People seem more broadly aware of Palestinian victimhood than they used to be, while the psychodrama of the threat to Israel doesn't go over as it did, twenty years ago, say, with the schoolchildren in gas masks at the time of the first Gulf War.