“Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.”

Malcolm X scandalized white America in 1963 when he referred to this old saying after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He meant that white people had finally come to know the lash of violence and hatred long felt by blacks.

Something like that is happening now in Israel. A country founded on the crime of ethnic cleansing and the principles of apartheid is finally coming apart at the seams under the weight of its own contradictions.