Three words that have come to make my hair stand on end. Here is Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books (via Norm):
“I’m unambiguously hostile to Israel because it’s a mendacious state. They do things that are just so immoral and counterproductive and, as a Jew, especially as a Jew, you can’t justify that.”
And then, this:
“What Cherie Blair said about being a suicide bomber if she’d been brought up in Gaza, I can absolutely see that point.”
So that makes sense: You can’t, “as a Jew,” justify Israeli mendacity, but you can, “as a Jew,” wink at the deliberate slaughter and maiming of Israeli civilians.
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as a jew, i understand how important it is to send my boy in the army a salami. my Jewishness gives me a unique comprehension of the necessity of this act. Now, i'm unambiguously hostile to most sausages because of their mendacious state. Most sausages are way too salty, they do things to the digestion that are just so counterproductive and, as a jew, — nay, ESPECIALLY as a Jew, I just can't justify rolling that way. However, I can justify your love…