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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There was a moment during a recent meeting between the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board and a high-ranking Israeli diplomat that provided some jolting clarity to the global debate over the war in Gaza. We noted during the discussion that, as a board, we have consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself. “I appreciate that, but it’s part of the problem,” responded Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Israeli consul general for the diplomatic subdivision that includes St. Louis. “Would you or anybody else … refer to any other country in the world [as having] the ‘right to defend themselves?’” he continu…