> [If Cohen's saying this stuff, something's changing in elite U.S.
> attitudes towards Israel.]
The originally referenced exchange was on Cohen's Hamas and Hezbollah views. He's gotten if anything even more flack for his series of Iran articles. But he's continuing to surprise with the doughtiness of his defense:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16cohen.html
It's worth reading to the end. For a NYT headline pundit, this is really something new.
Michael