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and as a politician myself I am deeply mindful that we are imperfect creatures and don’t always act with justice uppermost on our minds.
Independent of the fact that your particular post is about Israel and will of course bring the predicatble emotional reaction that the act of denial requires, I find it more telling that the hedge that I quote above is exactly the sort of simple truth that idealogues of all stripes will find intolerable.
I'll to avoid jokes about there being two kinds of people, those who beleive that there are only two kinds of people and those who don't.
(or 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't.)
But I think one of the ways we can classify people other than the left/right divide which we all agree makes no sense, is by noting their ability for self-reflection and recognition of their own flaws.
One of the reasons liberals proudly refer to themselves as 'reality-based' is because they avoid the self-inflicted blindness that is necessary in order to be perfect all of the time.
The conflict I'm trying to describe is also the one that leads people to invent the phrase "Blame America First Crowd" The unwillingness to engage in self-reflection and the loud demonizing of those who do is pretty much an identifying tag of the RWA personality.
