Israel in fighting his rivals in Hamas while accusing Israel of war crimes in international forums. Throughout, he could count on American and European leaders to keep meeting Palestinian demands without requiring any concession in return.

Audiences had to be reminded of the myriad leaflets the IDF had dispersed warning Palestinian civilians to leave combat areas and about the operation’s unprecedentedly low ratio of civilian-to-combatant casualties.

The Palestinian Authority has decided no longer to transfer wounded Palestinians to Israeli hospitals, despite the fact that Israeli hospitals are completely nonpolitical in their treatment of patients, triaging them by reference to the seriousness of their injuries rather than by which side of the conflict they happen to be on.