Hi John, thank you for engaging here. In my view, it's easy to interpret anyone not making blanket condemnations as equivalent to condoning Israel's actions. My sense is that if you were to read through this a bit more slowly, especially the last two bullet points, you might see my words a bit differently. I wrote an entire piece (linked to here) advocating for special forces operations coupled with targeted assassinations instead of Israel's current approach. In this piece itself, I argue that Israel had a choice and didn't need to respond as it did. You are of course free to interpret this as an apology for what Israel is doing, but I would call that an ungrounded assessment given what I've written in this comment.