What A Fucking Idiot

An LA Times op-ed piece argues that Israelis are just as culpable as Palestinians in deaths caused by Palestinians. Yes, he actually says that:

Leon Wieseltier of the New Republic argued at the time that the equation is false because "the death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective."

The distinction might have had greater merit if Israeli strikes held out any prospect of ending, or even reducing, Palestinian terrorism. In fact, they have the opposite effect.

So let me get this straight - Israel fighting back against Palestinian terrorism causes more Palestinian terrorism. Right. Forget the moral bankruptcy of such a claim, but it's been fairly well proven false in several instances, PIJ's leadership being decimated and Hamas' cease fire for the past year and a half, for two examples.

But the op-ed goes on with more lies, the biggest one being the entire premise that it was an Israeli shell that killed a Palestinian family on the beach. In fact, it is well known now that it was a Hamas-made explosive that killed the family, well documented in several accounts, and yet, this guy can lie through his teeth to make a point that isn't true.

Not the mention his call for statehood was actually offered to the Palestinians in 1998 and famously rejected by Arafat. Why does he bother writing about a topic he clearly knows nothing about?