is reserved from contributors to the “New York Review of Books” who write about Israel. Jonathan Freedland concludes a new piece on the “liberal Zionist” dilemma with the pontification: “They will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist.” No place for Jewish identity or commitment to the Jewish people’s survival in this formulation. Freedland also manages simultaneously to excoriate Israeli soldiers as child murderers in this war while mocking them for being ineffectual in failing to win previous wars. Dante tells us that there are certain souls so odious that the devil cannot wait for them. He takes them below while their wretched selves remain animated in human bodies, going through the motions of being pope–or, in Freedland’s case, journalistic pontificator. See http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jul/26/liberal-zionism-after-gaza/ July 26, 2014, 11 a.m.