I'm harping on David Brooks's column about his twelfth trip to Israel because Brooks is such an important voice. A wonderful writer, a wonderful presence on television. Very sharp and reasonable about Obama. But completely opaque about his religious investment, which surely played a role in his support for the Iraq war. Let alone in his sociological/religious observations in Bobos (a delightful book that paddles the WASPs but tugs nary a hair on Jews' chinny chin chins).
Last paragraph of his column the other day:
This conflict will go on for a generation or more. Israelis will keep up their insufferable and necessary barrage of self-assertion. And yet we still dream of peace and the day when I am standing in line at an Israeli cash register and an Israeli shopper sees a chance to butt in front of me, and — miracle of miracles — she will not try to take it.
Who's we?
