There is no "spin" involved...

But it did make me want to puke, too.

I want to make two points, then I'll leave it alone... mostly because I don't want to give the author (David Bromwich) any more time than I have to. He isn't worth it.

"The fantasy says that the Arabs understand only force. It says we can end terrorism by killing all the terrorists. The neighbors of the terrorists will be overawed. No new terrorists will be created. Finally, when every face on the president's fifty-two card deck is crossed out and the known composition of Hamas is dead, we can "address the social conditions" that foster terrorism. But perhaps there are no such conditions. Do the terrorists not hate for hate's sake?

You can see the shape of the fantasy most distinctly in the writings of those journalistic enablers who move into position as soon as either country starts a war that needs interpreting. "It was Israel at its best," writes Yossi Klein Halevy, a typical war broker, in a New Republic column posted on December 29. "In response to random attacks aimed at civilians, Israel launched precise attacks aimed at terrorists." Halevy does not add that the precise attacks killed almost 400 persons and that one death in every four was civilian."

Mr Bromwich does not add that the vast majority of those 100 (estimated) civilian deaths were due to Hamas using Palestinians as human shields... 42 of those deaths were children who died in a school they couldn't leave because the Hamas terrorists were storing rockets on the ROOF! Is Israel then responsible for these deaths? Did the IDF not give 14 minutes of warning before firing on the school? Isn't it the fundamental policy of EVERY modern society to ensure that schools have in place evacuation procedures in the case of fires... more than adequate enough to get less than 50 kids out of a school building in less than 15 minutes, right?

My second point is to the fact that Bromwich is suggesting that the US/Israel are attacking Hamas and Gaza because we feel that Hamas was a "bad choice" for the Palestinians to make in their elections. I think ANY rational human being would agree that an avowed terror organization IS a bad choice as a representative governmental party... but that isn't why they are being attacked.

They are being attacked because THEY KEEP FIRING ROCKETS AT ISRAEL. They continue to blow themselves up in markets and cafes. They explode bombs under fully-loaded buses. They kidnap Israeli troops and torture them in front of a camera and then put those images on the Internet.

Over the last 6 days, Israel has had the opportunity to "massacre" thousands of Palestinians with as much of an "excuse" as you could hope... but have they? Have they targeted civilians? Have they fired even ONE bullet that wasn't aimed at a terrorist? Have they not ANNOUNCED each and every single move they have made, specifically to give civilians time to leave the area?

No, my friend... this isn't "spin", this is simply outright LIES. This is every bit as revisionist as anything Iran is saying in regards to the Holocaust, and it is coming from the American left.