The New York Review of Books seems to be in the same game as me, trying to lead the American Jews out of the desert, but from a more pro-Israel position, which explains why it would print as an “exchange,” this disgraceful letter by Stuart Robinowitz, a retired bigtime New York lawyer and investigator for Human Rights Watch, saying on the basis of Richard Goldstone’s reconsideration of April that Israel committed no war crimes in the onslaught on Gaza. The smart response from David Shulman includes this line:
Indeed, were the State of Israel to assume responsibility for what its army did in Gaza, and were it to transform its policy toward Palestinians into something that was minimally rational, constructive, and humane, it would soon emerge from the overwhelming isolation it now suffers in the international arena.
I wonder if that’s true– or if this isn’t one of those toothpaste back into the tube situations.
