> As for Israel and the Middle East, here's
> what Hitchens - whom Yoshie compares to
> Thomas Friedman - recently had to say:
>
> "I hate and despise Hezbollah and Palestinian
> suicide-murderers, as they ought to be called,
> but they'd have to work day and night for
> years to equal the total of civilians killed
> in Lebanon alone, or by Sharon alone."
Hmm. That sounds like he's asserting that Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorism on its worst day is no worse than Israeli foreign policy on a good day. I just hope there's an English-born contrarian writer around to call him soft on Islamo-fascism.
I assume there's a fair amount of tension in Hitchens' mind between the fact that his view of Al-Qaida and the Likud view of Hamas are exactly the same. I wonder how this tension will be resolved?
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