Within communities under chronic siege – whether minorities under assault by the surrounding population or small nations attacked by their neighbors – it is common for some to seek to appease the besiegers at any cost and to do so while attempting to cast an aura of superior judgment over their stance. This has been a recurrent phenomenon in Diaspora Jewish communities and has also been a constant within Israel in the face of the Arab siege.
Richard Cohen’s judgment of Israel as a “mistake” is one more sordid entry in that shameful record.
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