…And then came the most amazing article which not one fact, not identifying one man’s name, place-name or year, appeared. It was just this nameless massacre of POWs by Israelis soldiers.

The war was not named. The soldiers doing basically the murdering were unnamed. It was almost Kafkaesque. It had a dream like quality to it.

It was fit for any accusation against the Jews in every generation on record. Has there ever been a generation without the oppression and persecution, including not only the big pogroms but the mundane occasional murder of a Jew for which murder no one is ever convicted?

This Haaretz piece was like a template of Jew-hatred unbounded by any century, place or country. In it, there was this vague presentation of Jews as mass murderers. And that this appeared on the front page of the newspaper called Haaretz is the final proof that this newspaper is at times in class with Nazi Germany’s Der Sturmer or Der Beobachter or the Catholic Church priests spewed Jew-hatred as a matter of course. I couldn’t believe I was reading this in this once respectable newspaper.

It was worthy of those Breaking the Silence betrayers of Israel who tell of Israelis war crimes but facts, names, nothing concrete is ever produced. Nameless accusations directed namelessly, not at the specific criminals in uniform with names but no one is name, is much better. That ways, all IDF soldiers are potentially the war criminal; at way every soldiers is smeared with guilt…