He had always considered himself a human being, a Jew and a Zionist until he began to recognize that his Zionism negated the other two aspects of his identity.I was thinking yesterday how Bush and Howard cannot escape the mess of the Iraq War, because they cannot admit they were wrong, and so the whole morass becomes an ever-deepening quagmire entrapping more and more innocent lives.
But really, what is the Iraq War if not just one more aspect of the endlessly tragic conflict over Palestine that began in 1948?