Andrew Sullivan’s piece was powerful when it first came out, and still powerful on re-reading. Israel has the moral authority (still) but lives in a world where PR and optics do count to some degree. And Sullivan imo is as good of a flag bearer for the classic liberal centrist as there is among the public intelligentsia (in the west). Th…
Andrew Sullivan’s piece was powerful when it first came out, and still powerful on re-reading. Israel has the moral authority (still) but lives in a world where PR and optics do count to some degree. And Sullivan imo is as good of a flag bearer for the classic liberal centrist as there is among the public intelligentsia (in the west). The woke lefty morons can and should be ignored as a matter of routine . But when Sullivan starts to have some reservations, I think that has a certain heft as an indicator of public opinion among the “silent majority”.
I also harken back to the Sam Harris position on Islam. As one of the writers noted, average Palestinians in gaza are victims here…but they are also complicit to some extent (complicated though that is, to be sure, in the face of a murderous Hamas regime). But if Islam is ultimately the root of the problem, then that is far more vexing than even ridding Hamas from Gaza will be.
Andrew Sullivan’s piece was powerful when it first came out, and still powerful on re-reading. Israel has the moral authority (still) but lives in a world where PR and optics do count to some degree. And Sullivan imo is as good of a flag bearer for the classic liberal centrist as there is among the public intelligentsia (in the west). The woke lefty morons can and should be ignored as a matter of routine . But when Sullivan starts to have some reservations, I think that has a certain heft as an indicator of public opinion among the “silent majority”.
I also harken back to the Sam Harris position on Islam. As one of the writers noted, average Palestinians in gaza are victims here…but they are also complicit to some extent (complicated though that is, to be sure, in the face of a murderous Hamas regime). But if Islam is ultimately the root of the problem, then that is far more vexing than even ridding Hamas from Gaza will be.