God rest the soul of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old in the Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. 'Free Palestine,' he declared as he was dying. While he meant his death as a political protest, it was suicide. And it should not be celebrated.
A history professor told Time magazine that it was 'an act of despair.' Clearly. The same article purported to exp…