this is the fifth major assault in nine years when and how it will end is unclear but heres what we know for certain no good will come from this madness there will be no winners and when the dust settles and the tears dry palestinians and israelis will be more embittered and will feel less secure the morality of the powerful beginnings matter questions about culpability and responsibility about the narrow cynicism that defines so much of life in the gaza strip sequence and motive they all go to beginnings how it started in gaza sure one can argue that access to guns is a constitutional right protected by the second amendment but one could also argue that access to welfare is a constitutional right protected by extension of the tenth amendment and even fourteenth amendment the hypocrisy of extreme partisanship