Stab in the Back

Antisemitism is an insidious plague. It can start in the most ostensibly innocuous fashion, with mild disagreement as to whether a particular genocide is or is not being carried out with an alacrity that might arguably be considered indecorous; and then before you know where you are it turns out that you have in fact spent years mentioning noses, rats and octopuses with ever more incriminating innocence. Indeed, so subtly has the pestilence spread that a former prime minister of the Righteous State is now complaining that the Netanyahoo administration's war crimes are unprecedented in their lack of discernible goals, proper planning or realistic chances of success, and that in recent weeks (though evidently not before then) the number of unprofitable casualties among the Palestinian Untermenschen has verged upon the monstrous. It comes to something when even the elders of Likud seem ready to forget their protocols and start poisoning the wells of moral cleanliness.