Instead of confronting its deeds, perhaps even justifying them as lying in the grey areas of the morality of war, Israelis and their leaders prefer to cling to a world of black and white, one in which we are 100% right and everyone else is 100% wrong, and to lead their flock accordingly. In that respect, it doesn’t really matter whether the UNHCR report was better or worse than Goldstone and whether it presented a fair or skewered picture of the Gaza war: its true significance is that it embeds Israelis ever deeper in their isolated bunkers, in a place where every opportunity is a trap, every risk is existential and every reaction is justifiable, given the circumstances.