Of the websites I see regularly, only Phil Weiss and his colleague Adam Horowitz seem the least bit troubled by the Israeli assault on Gaza. But the world is smaller now, and the use of this much American made air power against defenseless civilian targets will have some blowback, probably in this direction.

Last week at a talk on the prospects for peace at the New America Foundation, one participant recalled President Clinton’s visit to Gaza in 1999. Palestinians stood hundreds  deep for miles  along his route  and grown men wept on hearing Clinton’s graceful and powerful acknowledgement of Palestinian displacement and suffering. Obama is now silent as the American choppers and F-16’s, under Israeli command, go into action. It’s not a change for the better.