Taking sides in this conflict is an exercise in futility. Israel is right; Israel is wrong. Hamas is right; Hama is wrong. The mistake Bush and his ineffectual Secretary of State made was taking sides; Israel against everyone else. To expect objectivity–much less intelligence–from Bushies is truly unrealistic. We shall spend years reaping the wind from this bunch of incompetent foreign relations "experts".

The purpose of this murderous assault is to facilitate permanent retention of illegal Jewish colonies in the West Bank, contrary to international law and contrary to Israel's own true best interests.

The article is written in the typical manner of someone who purports to be Jewish, in order to make what he is saying that much harsher. I'll just give one example. His second point about the 'law of war', repeats the oft-cited specious argument about a proportionate response. It seems this author whould be as upset with the United States for entering WWII after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I mean, all the U.S. should have done, it seems, was go over there and lob a few ... More »