I’m sure the members all do genuinely feel that way, but did they really need to fake homegrown gravitas to ensure publication in as many local opin

I’m sure the members all do genuinely feel that way, but did they really need to fake homegrown

gravitas to ensure publication in as many local opinion pages as possible? Probably. You don’t engage

in large-scale propaganda – excuse me, “a public relations campaign” – unless you feel like you got

caught with your hand in the cookie jar. From the look of the essay, it seems that the pro-Israel crowd

is going for the “but they did it first” tactic favored by young children for time immemorial.

Occasionally that might work with one’s peers, but it’s a piss poor way to convince the rest of the

world that they have the moral high ground – or maybe they are really just trying to convince

themselves.

Just hours after the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Iraq took effect, we reported that American

forces shot a civilian woman in Baghdad.

Such a shooting was expected to be a big test for the SOFA, which ostensibly was meant to prevent the

US from shooting and arresting so many civilians. But the US now has an explanation, and that seems

good enough for the Iraqis.