Spirit sensitive

Of these two different types of response to Mel Gibson's recent anti-Semitic outburst, I know which I prefer. It's this one, Gibson's own. One might wonder whether, even drunk, he could have said what he said without harbouring, somewhere within, one or two unpleasant notions. Still, it's an apology, an act of recognition; it attempts to put things right.

It may be contrasted with this piece by Andrew O'Hagan in today's Telegraph, which contains gems like the following:

Dangerously worded as it was, Gibson's drunken comment was, it could reasonably be argued, a statement against the arrogance of the Israeli military: "They started all the wars in the world."
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Jews, and by extension Israelis, are un-insultable in ethnic terms, though everybody else is.

Uninsultable, hey? Where on earth does this guy live? What does he read? He also chimes in, predictably, with that old 'oversensitivity to insult' thing. Jeez, whatever could have made them so touchy? Rank stuff.