Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop...
A tainted tale coming from a Mattisian hawk, but believable enough. This kind of disinterest is likely to be the closest thing we ever see to antiwar sentiment on the part of an American president in our lifetimes. What a world.