Thus spoke an Israeli liberal. "Ari Shavit, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, put the matter as well as anyone: "Israel is currently waging the most just war in its history," he wrote Monday. "Not a war of occupation, but rather a war of defense." Ever since I started following the Arab-Israeli conflict, I never recall a time when Israeli liberals and leftists did NOT declare the particular war or aggression that Israel happens to be launching as "the most just war."