Blaming Israel for Arab barbarity

Does the ‘blame Israel’ meme know no bounds? In today’s Baltimore Sun (req. reg.), G. Jefferson Price III blames Israel for Palestinians’ wanton destruction of Gaza synagogues. Israel ‘lost its senses’, the looting and desecration was ‘inevitable’, and a ploy from Israeli rightists. Then Price III plays Jewish theologian:

The synagogues were cleared of all religious texts and relics. The structures themselves did not have any of the archaeological connection to Jewish history that exists in places like Jerusalem’s Temple Mount or Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. Their history was the occupation.

One good response to claims such as this — that Palestinians cannot be held accountable for even the most barbaric acts as destroying a place of worship — came today from the pen of Omri Ceren.