I think you and Ms Toynbee would do well to drop your uncritical support for this unfortunate person.
The first is that uncritical support for Israel across the decades has not served America's best interests.
It happens to be completely at variance with everything we know, but has all the merits of self-adulation and uncritical support for power.
It also increases the risk to Americans, who are blamed throughout the world for their government's uncritical support of Ariel Sharon's policies.
Its absolute and uncritical support for Israel has not brought about peace.
Those who signed the "Open Letter" called for a united front against fascism, that in their view required uncritical support of the Soviet Union.
Washington's uncritical support has also reinforced the general's arrogance and insularity, which are at the heart of his current political problems.
Each side's newspapers provided uncritical support to their own the next day.
Doing so in the case of uncritical support for Israel (or any other foreign country) borders on the blasphemous.
In terms of pure devotion and uncritical support, the theatrical life never gets much better.