Illegal West Bank outpost of Sde Yonatan evacuated and demolished, 10 activists detained

[The Magistrate]

17. My Apologies, It's Been A While

At present Hamas is the force put in the field by Palestinian resistance. To support Palestinian resistance is to support Hamas. To approve of what Hamas did, to any degree, is to partake of it, and accept its blood upon your head. I agree the settlers are a bad lot, I would not blink if they were turned out of their homes tomorrow by a civilized armed force and set walking west, and would not mind a club or three being employed to hurry them along.

But I don't care, not anymore. My position has always been there is a measure of justice to the claims of either side, and that people of sound mind and good heart can disagree on it.

That went away on October 7, and put bluntly, it departed in response to the adulation and applause with which that day's atrocities were greeted, among Arab Palestinians, the Islamic world in general, and certain elements of the Western left. It is not so much that I support Israel now in greater measure, but that my disgust with her enemies now has no bottom.