Arabs and Israelis have been battling each other for so many years that it no longer seems to matter much who throws the first punch on any given day. To the aggressor, violence is always a form of retaliation or self-defense. Consider what happened last week on the Temple Mount.
The Israeli police version. At 10:30 a.m., as more than 15,000 Jews gathered at the Western Wall for prayers celebrating the Sukkoth festival, they were ambushed by a mob of 3,000 Palestinians positioned on the Temple Mount above, hurling rocks at the rate of nearly 300 a minute. Simultaneously, Palestinians attacked...