Letters to the Editor
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Why not cut & paste the actual quote? Too inconveniently factual, eh?
... why "Israel says" instead of "Neo-Cons in Israel say"?
That's a bit sweeping, to imply that ALL Israelis and ALL of Israel are a bunch of lying war-mongers, on the same level as the handful of neocon elites in the US. -- Taste of Death Publishing Company
Compare this to Glenn's actual words in his first Update:
UPDATE: It isn't just the American neocons, but also the Israelis, who are escalating the "Attack Iran" campaign. The Jerusalem Post yesterday "reported" that "with Iran racing forward with its nuclear program, Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a military scale this year" -- Glenn Greenwald
Greenwald did not write "Israel says" in his update. The sentence he wrote is ambiguous; the phrase "American neocons, but also the Israelis" could be read as either "also the Israeli neocons" or as "also all the Israeli political establishment".
His next sentence is quite clear in its attribution -- he reports that the Jerusalem Post is asserting what "Israel believes".
It's a bit more difficult for an honest commenter to beat his chest and rend cloth when Glenn's actual words are examined. But, I suspect if honest was your aim, you would have cut & pasted the quote in a comment, and asked him precisely what he meant before going on a tear about how terribly abused you are by the mere existence of a "leftwing blogosphere".