A few weeks after his friend Michael Walzer pronounced on the "awfulness" of Gaza, Leon Wieseltier
has had a similar epiphany:
"I have a sickened feeling about the recent campaign in Gaza. No sovereign state can accept regular aggressions across its border, but Operation Cast Lead seems to have accomplished nothing. Hamas is again firing its rockets, Israel is again retaliating against them, and Israeli politicians are again making virile promises to finish the job. The suffering of the people of Gaza during the war was partly the responsibility of their own astoundingly callous leaders, but not entirely. Israel's choice of tactics and strategies was its own; and when it chose blunt instruments, it guaranteed harsh consequences…"
Good for him. "Harsh consequences" I assume means the delegitimization of Israel in international opinion (only read the clip on Sullivan). I just wish these people would stop using the tin-soldier pornography of "Cast Lead." Hundreds of women and children were destroyed. What is this Israel, Wieseltier?
(Via Voskamp)
