In the Middle East, Escalation Now

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“There are three distorting lenses that warp how we see the current Israeli campaign: 1. the belief, assumed as a kind of gospel, that the first order of business should be securing a ceasefire; 2. the related belief, also taken as self-evident and gospel-pure, that the humanitarian situation in Gaza should be an overriding concern for both Israeli and American policymakers; 3. the misbegotten notion, epidemic in these litigious United States of America, that the questions in front of us are mainly, or even in some important way, legal and amenable to legal remedies.” [editor’s note: I don’t always agree with Williamson, but he’s almost never just flat stupid. This column is an exception, not the rule – TLK] (10/25/24)

https://thedispatch.com/article/in-the-middle-east-escalation-now/