Richard Cohen defending Israeli war crimes

When you read an American liberal about to defend Israeli war crimes, you know that the word "anguish" is about to be used. I looked at the title of this article and realized that "anguish" will make it into the article but did not know that it will be in the first sentence:  "In “My Promised Land,” Ari Shavit’s anguished book about Israel".  And then the justification of the war crimes: "Israel today is 20 percent Arab. This is because the country was not ethnically cleansed. Israel did not follow what in 1945 through 1948 was standard behavior — the population transfers approved by the victors of World War II. Europe was ethnically reorganized — no Germans in Poland; no Germans in Czechoslovakia, either. And, lest we forget, the British approved the plan to swap Muslims and Hindus in the creation of Pakistan. All over the world, millions died — at least 500,000 ethnic Germans alone."