Say What?
Sometimes even smart people can say stupid things:
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz shocked the political establishment yesterday by expressing tentative, if qualified, support for conscientious objection, saying he understood what was potentially a "positive phenomenon."
Now Mazus has a series of qualifications for when refusal to serve might even approach the possibility of flirting with being positive. That won't stop every crackpot Los Angeles Times and (a couple levels higher on the sanctimony scale) Nation writer from talking about how "the growing refusnik movement in Israel received an unexpected boost from Israel's normally conservative Attorney General" (it seems like the refusnik movement is always "growing" in the American Leftist press, despite the consistent refusal of new people to actually join the movement). And it won't stop certain people from forwarding those articles into my Inbox (as if I missed it the first time around). You know who you are.
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz shocked the political establishment yesterday by expressing tentative, if qualified, support for conscientious objection, saying he understood what was potentially a "positive phenomenon."
Now Mazus has a series of qualifications for when refusal to serve might even approach the possibility of flirting with being positive. That won't stop every crackpot Los Angeles Times and (a couple levels higher on the sanctimony scale) Nation writer from talking about how "the growing refusnik movement in Israel received an unexpected boost from Israel's normally conservative Attorney General" (it seems like the refusnik movement is always "growing" in the American Leftist press, despite the consistent refusal of new people to actually join the movement). And it won't stop certain people from forwarding those articles into my Inbox (as if I missed it the first time around). You know who you are.
