When Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the dead

You really have to read this piece of...journalism by Jeffrey Goldberg. He identifies himself thus: "a one-time Israeli Army prison official-turned-reporter." The joke is that he thinks of himself as "a reporter." But read the whole thing and enjoy those revealing interviews with people who are now...dead. And there is a fundamental problem with logic: why are those people that he identifies as rabid anti-Semites confiding in him of all people, and revealing their innermost thoughts to him? I mean, Rayyan did not talk to the press and did not talk Arab journalists but for some reason he felt that Goldberg, having served in the Israeli terrorist army, is the right person to confide in, especially on Sunni-Shi`ite matters. Pretty convincing, don't you think? This reminds me of the imaginary interview that Christopher Hitchens had conducted with Abu Nidal.