Indiscriminate

In a May 2007 article the
If you wonder how we got where we are today, Eliyahu's pronouncement is a partial answer. In Sunday's New York Times, public editor Clark Hoyt writes in his column:

David K. Shipler, a former Times correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land,” said in an interview that each side firmly believes it is the victim in the struggle. “Any fair-minded coverage has to shatter that paradigm,” he said. “Both sides are both victims and perpetrators at the same time.”

Exactly right.
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