This article is part of a series. Other articles coming up next week will be more critical of Israel.

Nabil's comment ironically confirms the main argument I'm making which he doesn't really address. He nitpicks some references, and ignores the stronger ones and the overall explanation I'm offering (the facts that the Muslim world is largely anti-Jewish and that Israel is a tiny superpower in the region, and the combination of the two asymmetries). In the process he confirms that he's close-minded on the subject, when he makes all kinds of ugly insinuations about my "true colours," brainwashing, the "Nazi-like superiority complex" of Israeli Jews, and so on. The fact that he thinks it's obvious that Israel bombed the hospital shows the level of his engagement with the facts.

It's disappointing to see the wokeness trance affecting some of my readers.

And the notion that I'd be a one-sided apologist for Israel is laughable. As a civilized, modern society, Israel is subject to all my sociological criticisms of modernity that I've made in lots of other articles. I like to focus, though, on what seem to be key points that aren't getting enough attention. In this case, political correctness shuts out discussion of the obvious.

None of this is to say that Jews are saints or that Israel is beyond criticism. Machiavellianism is naturally questionable on moral grounds, as is any engagement in war.