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Some days you pick up the newspaper and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry,’ writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Actually, I haven’t been shedding too many crocodile tears lately, until, that is, a Sam Schulman column reached me via the miracle of the post. Talk about bursting out laughing. Schulman is an American friend of mine whom I once entrusted with running a section of the New York Press, Taki’s Top Drawer, now mercifully extinct. Schulman’s thesis in a jiffy: anyone who is anti-war is objectively if not intentionally helping to bring about genocide of the Jews. He writes of ‘complicitous pacifists’, and counts Jews among their number.
This is the kind of nonsense being hawked about by neo-cons nowadays, but before I get to those chappies, a brief defence of the ‘cowardly’ Frogs.
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