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Israel Is Held to an Impossible Standard
(Washington Post) Richard Cohen - Americans massacred as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968. Americans have killed children while attempting to kill their fathers and made all sorts of mistakes in wartime, but none of this changed the nature of the society. We ought to be measured by our intent, not by what went astray. The same holds for Israel. It is not a child-murdering community, although Syria, next door, most certainly is.