Z-Word: What Does Roger Cohen Want? - '...it's in the Iran columns that he seals the deal. A Jew 'brave' enough to 'admit' that Israel's no better than its enemies, to stand up to the powerful Jewish lobby making things so difficult for him to speak freely from his lowly post as a New York Times opinion-shaper, what could be more admirable? Granted one can never know the inner motivations of a writer. What can be known is that the decision to use one's visibly Jewish byline as a way to gain credibility and a fan base while writing unfavorably (read by anti-Semites as 'truthfully') about Jews is a journalistic tradition with a long history, one in which Cohen, in my reading at least, is taking part.'