Now he's setting up a moral equivalence between the Holocaust, and the fact that the Palestinians were urged to leave by their Arab "allies" in 1948 (so they could come back and retake Palestine after the renewed war that would drive the hated Jews into the sea).

Of course, it's much easier to do so when you leave out the actual history as I just described it, and instead falsely claim that the Jews forced them out, in an ethnic cleansing operation. Does he really believe this stuff? Is he really that ignorant of history? Or is he just another leftist who thinks that the truth doesn't matter, as long as the lies are in the service of "progress"?

I think he cares more about feeling good inside that being right...he may be "rationally" stupid by creating an entire logic system that would validate his distortions of reality.

One of the peace activists who was hit with bullet fragments was one of the "I need to feel good" liberals. Her entire quote in the article was about how she wanted to help and how she wanted to do this and that...but she didn't seem to care about being right--just feeling good.

Well said!

Good point. Fisk is a twit, albeit one whose poisonous views carry weight with a lot of people. However, it needs to be acknowledged that the founding of Israel after the Second World War undoubtedly caused problems for some of the people living there at the time. As a Brit, I think we have to take some responsibility for the circumstances of Israel's birth, in the light of the Balfour Declaration made shortly after the end of the First World War.
However, there is another point. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Israel's coming into existence post 1945, the fact is that it is the only genuine democracy in the Middle East; it is a legitimate sovereign state under the rule of law, in total contrast to nearly all its neighbours. Fisk, and others like him, refuse to acknowledge this. It really is amazing that the guy can ever claim to be called a progressive.

Regards,
Tom Burroughes
Reuters