Jeffrey Goldberg

I usually avoid commenting on the writings of Jeffrey Goldberg: not only because he is deeply ignorant of the Middle East (he was laughed out at in Egypt when he went asking Egyptians after Sep. 11 if sex in paradise is the motive of Muslim fundamentalists), but because he is visibly, well, not very bright at all, to put it very charitably. Here, he tells you that he has a Dahlan gang friend. You usually know when a racist vomits a racist point and then attribute it to "his best friend who happens to be a member of that race targeted by hate" that he/she is revealing his own racism. Here, Goldberg reminds me of Nazis in Germany: sometimes they would parade an individual Jewish person who they say supports their racist polices. Goldberg is like the Nazi parading that token victim. (thanks Norman)