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Aint Nick’s boomerang
Yourish.com — ... which “certain targets” house weaponry and other elements of the terror infrastructure. He can’t, but Israel’s military knows. Kristof effectively uses the word “certain” to say that he knows better which targets were legitimate. Further, for all his complaints, Kristof doesn’t make a case that Israel could have done things differently. Nor does he acknowledge Hamas’s culpability for civilian damage. For Kristof it’s blame Israel first and only. Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

Our Silence Buys Death For Others, Not Us. by Anthony McCarthy
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... As such, Jeff Jacoby’s attempt today to equate criticism of Israel’s attack on Gaza with classic anti-Semitism is a pretty threadbare tactic wielded automatically to silence the critics of Israel’s government and military. Though he tries to muddy the waters by disclaiming what he does in the rest of the column, he puts criticism of the Gaza invasion in the basket marked anti-Zionism and calls that the equal of anti-Semitism. He even quotes The Rev. Martin Luther King jr. saying pretty much that in 1968. Well, raise your level of skepticism of Jeff Jacoby when ...