The dire consequences of proportionality are so clear that it makes you wonder if it is a fig leaf for anti-Israel sentiment in general. Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality is madness. For Israel, a small country within reach, as we are finding out, of a missile launched from any enemy's back yard, proportionality is not only inapplicable, it is suicide. The last thing it needs is a war of attrition. It is not good enough to take out this or that missile battery. It is necessary to re-establish deterrence: You slap me, I will punch out your lights.
Dennis Prager--"Israel's War Separates Decent Left From Indecent Left":
Amos Oz and James Carroll are men of the Left who have been tested and passed the most clarifying moral litmus test of our time -- Israel's fight for existence against the primitives, fanatics and sadists in Hezbollah and Hamas and elsewhere in the Arab/Muslim world who wish to destroy it. Anyone on the Left who cannot see this is either bad, a useful idiot for Islamic terrorists, anti-Semitic or all three. There is no other explanation for morally condemning Israel's war on Hezbollah.
Judeosphere--" We apologize for the inconvenience":
It's official. In the United States, it is now considered legitimate discourse to term Israel "a mistake."The blogging cliche applies to each of these--read it all.
First, Richard Cohen got the ball rolling with his Washington Post editorial. Then, last week on C-Span, Steve Scully was interviewing Congressman Steve Chabot, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. As they were discussing the war between Israel and Hezbollah, Scully asked Chabot whether "after all things considered, looking in hindsight," was it "a mistake to create Israel in that part of the world?"
And now, New York Magazine has just published an article by Kurt Anderson, titled "Truly Inconvenient Truths."
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