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Decades ago the Arizona Republic newspaper had an editorial cartoon by I-am-not-sure-who, perhaps the Pulitzer prize winner Reg Manning, showing a Tibetan with his yak looking non plussed as some interloper planted an Israeli flag on top of what was obviously a mountain in the Himalayas; the caption read, "Tsk. Anti-semitism, even here."

I think of that when I see the film of Gaza looking like Dresden (we have been condemned for that) and want to say damn the Israelis. Either Israel is a nation like all others and subject to international judgment or it is an untouchable holy place like the Vatican. I got called out on one of these comment sections for saying I'd stopped reading about the ins-and-outs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decades ago because both sides claimed god was on their side. Nevertheless, I am not about to set anyone above fact and reason and morality just because god is on their side.

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