Over the weekend, a Jewish publication sent me an email. They wanted to pay me to write an essay! They thought it could be called "Why I Hate Israel, "because it would be a piece "which develops the ideas you are already publishing," which is how the editor put it to me. I had to, as the poet famously said, wonder: Did I accidentally publish my Israel-hating dream journal? After ascertaining that the editor wasn't actually kidding, I checked The Awl's page for Israel: hmm, mild critique of Israel's handling of the Gaza flotilla, a summary of Lawrence Wright's New Yorker piece on Gaza, a rather de facto pro-Israel [...]