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ISRAEL MALIGNED You will not find a better illustration of the decidedly unhinged anti-Israel obsessiveness of the Woke Left than this sentence appearing in Janine di Giovanni’s article (“Stateless in Gaza”, November 2021): “Even North Korea has slammed Israel for turning Gaza into a human slaughterhouse.” So Israel, by implication, is worse than North Korea, and is supposed to take moral lessons even from that benighted Stalinist dystopia? Di Giovanni evidently sees the world, and the Israel/Palestine conflict, in Manichaean terms: Palestinians good; Israel bad. You will not find in her article, even the hint of a suggestion that perhaps some of the problems in Gaza might be even a tiny bit self-inflicted? No acknowledgement that the response to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza was the election of an Islamist government…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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