Here's the latest:
I've decided that Andrew Sullivan is right, that I should provide Goldblog readers with the specific examples of where I think he has been so unfair to Israel and to Jews (and Christians, and everyone else) who support it. This requires me, for starters, to re-read, at many long sittings, everything he's written on the subject.
This is a total non-sequitur. What I asked Goldberg to do was to substantiate his claim that I deliberately and conciously misrepresented his views on this blog, viz:
[Sullivan] lied about what I have written, what I think, what I believe, and what I've reported …
Since he is referring to a specific post, and this is a very serious allegation of bad faith, he need spend no more time than to explain how, in that post, I lied about his views. I challenged him to name the alleged lies, or withdraw the accusation. He has done neither, and now wants to extend the smear into a magnum opus on my gesammelte Schriften on all things Israel-related. He's welcome to – but that wasn't my request. My request was for him to live up to basic ethical standards of journalism and when he calls someone a liar to prove it, or at least explain it. He won't. He can't.
But he did change one post a little, which I appreciate. He detached the Atlantic as a whole from his own personal assertion that I cannot be argued with (but, of course, never acknowledged the altered post or put the clarification in a separate post as is usual blogging procedure).
And what he means, by the way, by "will not be argued with" is, from my perspective, that I will not be bullied by a single colleague into not writing things I believe are true. And he is right about that. But argue? I argue till the cows come home. I live for it. With anyone on most anything.
But I won't be intimidated.
The Dish 