Last week Andrew Sullivan described Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl as a “spokesman” for Netanyahu. The job description is intact in Diehl’s latest column, which states the case for attacking Iran “with the Holocaust in mind,” which is to say, it portrays Iranians as Nazis: “The religious motivations of Iranian rulers…. mean Tehran might be willing to accept even devastating civilian casualties in exchange for wiping out the Jewish state.”

Then there’s this:

A weird but wonderful feature of Israeli democracy is that even fateful decisions about national security — like whether to carry out a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities — are publicly debated and covered in the press as if they were questions about road building or water rates, complete with vote counts in the cabinet and speculation about political motives.