Mailbag: Do you approve of civilian deaths?

A reader thinks I'm dodging the question, so let me clear things up.

A week ago in my article Palestine is not a PR problem I argued that the public positioning leftists engage in on Israeli civilian casualties — whether to condemn, celebrate, or ignore — probably won’t have significant political consequences. Several readers, however, weren’t satisfied:

Again, I don’t think posting my personal take on this matter is like…