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The Jewish-Israeli navel-gazers
![Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21, lying dead in the street in Hebron, March 24, 2016](http://web.archive.org./web/20160410153337im_/http://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/68993441981998640360no-300x169.jpg)
There’s nothing exceptional about Jewish-Israelis, or Palestinians for that matter. Or even apartheid. But a Jewish Israeli sense of exceptionalism and self-absorption serves to justify the endurance of persecution.