Christopher Hitchens concludes a piece on Gaza thus:
To read Benny Morris is to be quite able - and quite free - to doubt that there should ever have been an Israeli state to begin with. But to see Hamas at work is to resolve that whatever replaces or follows Zionism, it must not be the wasteland of Islamic theocracy.
I don't know how to read this other than as an anticipation of the end of the state of Israel. I'm sorry that Hitch should now think self-determination for the Jewish people either no longer possible or undesirable.
