“Something did break in me at the time of the Gaza attack”

says Roger Cohen, via Matt Yglesias who adds "for me, I think the equivalent moment came during the attack on Lebanon in 2006, but the impulse is similar", here

“Something did break in me at the time of the Gaza attack” last winter, he said. “I couldn’t see the strategy behind” Israel’s military moves, “and I was appalled at the extent of the loss of life” among Gazans. [...] “The great operative word” among Palestinians now is “humiliation,” Cohen said. “Whether or not it’s desired, that’s the effect. And it’s not good for the Palestinians, the Israelis or the Jewish soul.” [...] “No degree of suffering gives you an eternal passport to ride roughshod over another people,” he said.