That little cameleon Lindsey Graham is calling Israel’s “punishment” of Hamas a “Holy War.”

I don’t know precisely what he could mean, if he means anything at all specific. In any case, if we look back at the history of “Holy Wars” from the slaughter of the Canaanites onwards,  we see that “Holy War” means a politically advantageous genocide, or virtual genocide, carried out in obedience to what is claimed to be the will of God. 

It seems that, ruthlessly selfish though we are, there are levels of depravity beneath which we cannot sink unless we pretend that “God wills it,” “Gott mit uns,” etc.

 The very concept of a Holy War, a divinely sanctioned war, is blasphemous.