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Apart from fierce polemics, the election has generated widespread confusion.

While generating political polemics, Sunday’s vote has not triggered the raucous street rallies that generally accompany Mexican balloting.

The New York Times, which had vigorously supported the Iraq invasion published four op-eds defending Strauss, polemics that employed ridicule and condescension against the unsophisticated critics who supposedly didn’t “get” the philosopher’s subtle arguments.

Its signers endorsed the usual Zionist polemics, fitting all too neatly into Glazer’s description of “Jewishness and the Holocaust” being “hijacked by an occupation.”

“Not by the threat of environmental crisis. It is an art of gentleness and nuance, not of confrontation and polemics.”