 Complete the following phrase:  While Hitchens supported Israels right to exist, he was critical of the Israeli governments handling of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Having long described himself as a socialist and a Marxist, Hitchens began his break from the established political left after what he called the tepid reaction of the Western left to the controversy over The Satanic Verses, followed by what he saw as the lefts embrace of Bill Clinton and the anti-war movements opposition to 