TIME FOR A BLOGGER ETHICS PANEL.

Michael Oren is "a distinguished fellow at the Shalem Center and a professor at the foreign service school of Georgetown University” who specializes in Israeli politics and has been writing furiously for an array of American outlets since the war in Gaza began. Indeed, the description I just quoted comes from the bio line beneath his LA Times op-ed. As Tony Karon notes, though, there's a bit more to Oren's story. "Oren is currently in Gaza, in the uniform of the Israeli Defense Force, in which he is a reserve officer whose current duty is as a media officer working to shape perceptions of the Gaza operation." Nothing wrong with that, of course. But it's the sort of thing that should be made clear.