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The NYT has given prominent space to some reckless, uninformed voices in recent months, but there’s little to my recollection that compares with this horrific offering from the Israeli historian Benny Morris, who supplies his readers with a perverse, Strangelovian offer: Join Israel in a massive, conventional attack on Iran, because we’re going to do it anyway regardless of the low odds in our favor; if the US fails to cooperate, the aftermath will be worse for everyone, since Israel will soon enough be forced to use nuclear weapons.

Leave aside the possibility that the “Benny Morris” who wrote this is not the human-animal hybrid offspring of John Bolton and Atlas Shrugs. The fact that Morris suggests that the plan would only work between the November 5 and January 19 — when a lame-duck president would be able to support it — is reason enough to wonder why Morris’ doctors are still allowing him to use sharp dining utensils.

Let’s review that again: Benny Morris, who until recently was properly regarded as one of his country’s finest historians, now believes Israel’s interests will be ably served by yanking its greatest ally along on a mission that a vast majority of Americans citizens would oppose and whose target would be a nuclear weapons program that the CIA believes to be nonexistent and which, even if functioning, could not possibly bear fruit until 2015.

David Kaiser has more on why this is such a disappointing moment for anyone who appreciates Morris’ work.

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