The American Left and the Middle East: the case of Nicholas Kristof. By the way, this fellow who made the Darfur refugees into kitsch, does not seem interested in the Lebanese victims of the Zionist janjawid. And notice this article: typical. War should stop not because of the deaths of the Lebanese, but because it is bad for the US and Israel. And this liberal wants to end this war for another reason: he worries a great deal about "the weakening of moderates like King Abdullah of Jordan."