Everyone has declared that actor Mel Gibson is a drunken anti-Semitic lout, after his little problem with the law last week.
But there are plenty of people who have been nipping at the same bottle, writes British politician and opinion writer Boris Johnson.
Come on, Blair! they write from their wisteria-clad redoubts... When are you all going to stop poodling and call a halt to Israeli murder?
Easy for you to say, he continues. They aren’t raining rockets on your leafy avenue.
This is a country responding, however incompetently, to direct aggression against its own people from a neighbouring failed state.
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Whatever the hideous shambles of the past few days, it is still true, in principle, that when Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets, and that when Hizbollah rockets kill civilians, they have scored a deliberate hit.
And that matters when you want to make an honest balance in the equation of moral equivalency.
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