Watching this guy try to justify Israel-bashing is alternately infuriating and darkly amusing, but I wanted to highlight this one epitome of idiocy:
Some critics of Israel are motivated by a wish that it did not exist — that it would just somehow go away. But this is the politics of the ostrich: Flemish nationalists feel the same way about Belgium, Basque separatists about Spain.
If I were a Flemish nationalist or a Basque separatist, I do believe that I would be mortally insulted at the way that my cause had just been equated with a movement that includes people who make unapologetic calls to kill every Jew in the world.
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In case Free-range Oyster’s lengthy and frankly rambling comment was a little unclear to the average reader, let me summarize:
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Try this. And now that I’ve linked to the NY Times I think I need a shower.