Down on Blogging

I haven’t been hanging around the blogs much lately, and I can’t really explain why, but I think the nice weather has a lot to do with it.  It means that I work more, and it means that when I’m not working, I’m outside more. 

In any case, I thought I’d drop in here and post a nice little quote courtesy of Glenn Greenwald about the recent release of the Winograd Commision’s report on the July war against Lebanon:

Third, during the Israel-Lebanon war, right-wing devotees of Israel in the U.S. routinely accused those who questioned or opposed that war of being anti-Israel or, even more despicably, anti-Semitic. As always, they attempt to equate blind support for right-wing militarism with “support for Israel,” and disgustingly characterize any deviations from their extremist ideology as “anti-Semitism.”

Yet now this Commission has concluded that the Israeli attack on Lebanon was ill-conceived, misguided, and harmful to Israel — just as many opponents of that war argued it was. As is so often the case, the American faux-warriors who (from a safe and protected distance) mindlessly cheer on every act of Israeli aggression are the ones who inflict more damage on Israel, and make it more vulnerable, than virtually any other group.

Though they attempt to manipulate and bully acquiescence to their extremism by depicting themselves as the very embodiment of both Israel and “Jews” (thus rendering disagreement with them tantamount to both anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic hostility), they are nothing of the sort.

Read the whole thing, it’s worth it.