A fuller response to your comments about Gaza and Israel (first of two parts)

Which hopefully will be the last time I talk about this for a while. It is exhausting. I don't expect to convince anyone of anything, but I promised an answer to good-faith objections.

(PART ONE OF TWO: OCT. 7 AND THE FALL OF THE LEFT)

Two quick stories:

First: Not long ago I was talking to an Israeli who lives in New York, a staunch defender of Israel. We were talking, of course, about Gaza and Israel.

Israel is a Middle Eastern country, that’s what people in the United States don’t get about it, she said. It looks rich, it looks Wester…