VDH markets himself to the wingnut crowd, in order to re-sell, over and over, certain memes that allows him to push his books and cruises, etc.

As such, anything VDH writes I take as something I would find at WND. Now and then something factual might leak through, but for the most part everything should not be taken on face value.

For example, I note that Economist changed the title of article:

Editor’s note: The original headline of this blog post was inappropriate and has been changed at the instruction of the editor in chief. No offence was intended and we apologise unreservedly.

Far be it for VDH to acknowledge this.

Oh, and the “empire” thing? The blog entry is explicitly reference Gorenberg’s The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 , something that VDH ignores, because then he’d have to actually deal with what was meant, and that the term was used by a Jew living in Israel.

Far be it for VDH to actually inform his audience.

VDH is selling outrage to the outrage-consumers of wingnut-ville.