(Last year the same Pollard discovered that his left-wing friends from university days make no distinction between Israel and Jews, and dislike both heartily. Apparently each intellectual insight, like each mitzva, leads to others.) Christopher Hitchens, author of Why Orwell Matters, and another recent British refugee from "many years spent on the Left," notes that those marching under the banner "peace is better than war" would also have spared the Taliban regime, under which women were not allowed to leave the house, attend school, or visit a doctor, and that of Slobadan Milosevic. He might have added Hitler.