I think that's definitely true of individuals - all the Holocaust survivors I've met have been amazing people, they've just been so clearly exceptional people. But when power is involved in the equation, things can go really bad.

I've never heard the phrase "no right but our right" as something Israel owns up to. Obviously the way they do things exemplifies that, but I've never seen it in such blatant terms before. I'm used to thinking of them as being absolutely unswayable when they think they're right - which, I suppose, are the only occasions we hear about. We don't hear the agonized conversations about whether to attack a mosque because they know Hamas is keeping weapons there, but they also know how badly that situation will be seen. But it happens.