The only opinion I feel qualified to offer here is this: I find Dan's use of "she" charmingly poetic.
Well, that and I don't think it's fair, Mark, to assume Dan holds the opinion he does just because he's Jewish. His arguments seem pretty rational and well-researched to me, and to reduce everything he's said in this thread to a mere tribal grunt does him a disservice.
I'm as far from an expert on this situation as you'll find, but in the discussions I've seen about it online, I can't help but notice a certain eagerness to condemn Israel while glossing over the atrocities committed by Hezbollah. There's a lack of nuance - instead of saying, "Israel should have taken more care to minimize the number of civilian casualties," it's like, "Israel is bad, Israel has always been bad, everything Israel does is bad. Bad Israel!" In his column in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen said, "The world is having a Mel Gibson moment," and my Spidey-sense is tingling in agreement.
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