It's happened again!

Every so often- in spite of himself- liberal columnist Richard Cohen of the Washington Post expresses a thought which is the essense of clear, indisputable common sense.

He's done it again- on the utter insanity of decrying Israel's response to the Hezbollah aggression as "disproportionate."

Funny how people never worry about "disproportionality" on the part of Hamas, or Hezbollah, or Hitler.

Time to get real, people. Israel is not without its faults, and not everything it has done in its history can reasonably be seen as a source of pride for a nation whose values are those of the Old Testament, and which shares the liberal democratic tradition in which we also stand (not that everything we have done has always been consistent with our own values, either). But anti-Israeli sentiment has at least one thing in common with holocaust revisionism: far more often than those who engage in it are willing to admit, their actual motivation is pure, simple, ugly anti-Semitism.

Lots of people- on the Left worldwide, and all over the spectrum in Russia and Europe, especially- tend to disapprove of Israel because they just don't like Jews.