Here is the American Enterprise Institute's Jerusalem scholar, Dore Gold, trying to refute the obvious truth that Israel used "disproportionate force" in Gaza:
But who has kept the Palestinians from having a state for 60 years, the last 20 of them even as the Palestinians recognized the Israeli state? Who turned the Palestinians into non-state actors? This is a brutal catch-22. The same sort of brutal logic is evident in Jeffrey Goldberg's Gaza post, Goldberg who missed a golden opportunity to move even further center-left over the Gaza slaughter. He hardly shrugs over the destruction:
attacks on its citizens. Otherwise it is simply not a serious nation,
one that does not deserve sovereignty.
And what about the Palestinian nation, which was supposed to be born at the same time as Israel in 1948 out of the same faith in the nation-state as the building block of international order, but whose existence Zionists have denied forever? Are Palestinians not serious? Does Angry at settlers and colonies mean you're not serious? Or that you don't deserve sovereignty over your lands? Who is more serious in Iraq, Sunnis or Shi'a?
Thanks to Jeff Blankfort.
