We must expect more of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government than of, say, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime in Iran, not because Jews are morally superior to Persians, but because Netanyahu was freely elected and is subject to the rule of law, whereas Ahmadinejad has helped to wreck whatever was democratic about Iran. In a sense, to hold Israel to the highest standards is to pay it the compliment of being treated like a normal democracy.