More sensitive and compassionate feelings turning Israeli victims into oppressors -- natch, it's routine, just read, nod and turn the page -- from our sensitive and compassionate playwrights and critics. Ian Johns in the Times reviews Naomi Wallace's A State of Innocence thus:

'An amiable Israeli-American soldier is guarding the wretched animals left in Rafah’s battered zoo in Gaza. There he meets a Palestinian woman grieving for her daughter, killed by an Israeli bullet. An arrogant Zionist architect, seemingly from another age, arrives with a divisive “wall and tower approach” to rebuilding any scarred society, his blinkered idealism as sensitive as a bulldozer. A ghostly twist adds to the sense that the soldier and the mother are both victims of history as well as politics. Eve Polycarpou is a powerful embodiment of maternal grief laced with a wry humour that highlights the madness she sees around her. Conrad Westmaas is equally strong as the soldier who eventually seeks comfort in her arms. It’s a poignant final image in a sometimes allusive but always compassionate play and benefits from the low-key, simple staging that Raz Shaw brings to both plays.'

Grieving Palestinian, arrogant Zionist...can anyone imagine a play put on in London featuring an arrogant Palestinian and a grieving 'Zionist'? Even to ask the question is to invite vituperation.