From the editorial, "It is in fact important not to automatically label any criticism of Israel’s government and/or military tactics as antisemitism. . (Supporters) have rightly expressed increasing frustration . for the soaring Palestinian death toll "
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I’m going to let
John Branch (KFS) stand in for a lot less honest, or less accurate, commentators, because his piece is both clever and, I think, accurate.
Westerners are used to seeing those pumps constantly going up and down on the plains, but I heard them likened to grasshoppers early enough that I didn’t think of them in terms of those bobbing birds that dip into a glass of water until now, much less as ostriches.
Ostriches don’t really bury their heads in the ground any more than lemmings go piling off cliffs into the ocean but we have the established metaphor anyway and it certainly seems to apply to supporters of the oil and gas industry, if not to the industry itself.