Read the full story: Religion DispatchesAs scholars and experts have often noted, conspiracy theories proliferate when, in the face of a complex situation or event, people are offered easy answers that tend to confirm preexisting beliefs. So when tens of thousands of Moroccans surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week, and officials from both nations pointed to a tangle of mundane and depressing causes, we shouldn’t have been surprised that, within hours, a much tidier story had taken hold: Israel did it.