Why Does the Times Publish this Ross Douthat Anti-Israel Craptrap?

Tomorrow in the times, OP-ED COLUMNIST -- "Israel and Outremer," By ROSS DOUTHAT, contains a tall pile of meaningless assertions cloaked in learned sounding historical contexts, like this one,

In the wake of the Gaza and Lebanon wars, and now the blockade-running fiasco, the Jewish state is as isolated on the world stage as it’s been since the dark Zionism-is-racism years of the 1970s.

To which all we can say is, ooh ooh - not isolated on the world stage again!

What ever does that negative sounding assertion mean anyway?

Don't the Times' editors even read or edit the claptrap op-eds that they publish?