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November 22, 2024

FOLLOW-UP ON YESTERDAYS ARTICLE:

‘I WOULD HAVE DROPPED THREE NUCLEAR BOMBS’
Talking to Israelis about the war in Gaza

SEYMOUR HERSH
NOV 22, 2024
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How to explain why Israel does what it does? How to explain the bombing, maiming, and starving of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm in Gaza as if all were active members of Hamas and plotting the next attack? There is history, of course—we all know what history—and it is always present.

I have an Israeli friend who came to me at a Washington cocktail party thrown in the mid-1980s by the late Milton Viorst, whose New Yorker reports on the Middle East were required reading. My new friend—call him Sammy—told me with a small smile, no wink, that he was a consultant now at work in Washington. We talked about the Arab world—his English was fluent if heavily accented—and I overheard him talking in French and Arabic at the party. Some consultant, I thought.

Always the reporter, I had a few lunches ...