He won't. He's Akiva Eldar, and he writes for Ha'aretz. Eldar's views are shared by only a tiny minority of Israel's citizens. But that's the point. He still has a job. Israel has bandwidth. He would be out of work in the U.S.
Here's Eldar's piece in the Nation, in which he seems to rationalize suicide terrorism:
[Nahum Barnea has written that] there are Israeli reporters who do not pass the 'lynch test.'" These, he wrote, are journalists who could not bring themselves to criticize the Arabs even when two Israelis were savagely murdered by a mob in Ramallah. Barnea…went on to argue that our support for the Palestinian position is absolute. He concluded, "They have a mission." I was honored to be mentioned as one of those journalists… I admit to being guilty as charged. … Occupation does not have two sides. There is no symmetry between the occupier and the occupied. This is true even if the occupied fight the occupier with despicable and contemptuous methods. [contemptible?]
Eldar also mentions Walt and Mearsheimer, calls their book "controversial." There's an old Yiddish expression for such a gesture: the pot calling the kettle black.
(Thanks to Dan Swanson for the brainwork)
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"He still has a job. Israel has bandwidth. He would be out of work in the U.S."
I am afraid the editor would never allow such an op-ed piece to be written in any major paper in the US.
Isn't talk of this Nakba business anti-Semetic?
Anti-Semitism…A Fraudulent Term…And The Most Important Tool In the Zionist's Tool Kit
http://homo-sapien-underground.blogspot.com/2008/05/anti-semitisma-fraudulent-termand-most.html
What's the deal. The thought of Jews getting beaten to death gets you guys hot?
anti semitism meaning anti jewish meaning any thing jews do not like. meaning truth. as some have said. as many have said. as jews verify hour by the hour. article by article. rant by rave.
"the pot calling the kettle black"
from one source:
This phrase originates in Cervantes' Don Quixote, or at least in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation – Cervantes Saavedra's History of Don Quixote:
"You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, 'Avant, black-browes'."
The first person who is recorded as using the phrase in English was William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, in his Some fruits of solitude, 1693:
"For a Covetous Man to inveigh against Prodigality… is for the Pot to call the Kettle black."
'Israel has bandwidth'
The same forces that ensure there's no bandwidth in the US are hard at work here in Australia, trying to achieve the sort of blackout you endure.
Middle East correspondent for the last 5 years for the Sydney Morning Herald Ed O'Loughlin penned his final piece the other day, only to see it pulled by the editor without warning or explanation. His reporting, utterly blameless so far as I could see, had apparently been under relentless attack by the local chapter of the Lobby, and his gutless editor obviously decided he could do without the usual tsunami of righteous Zionist wrath.
I had a letter published in the Herald today – after much argy bargy with the (I think) Jewish letter editor, who in the end I think treated me fairly and kept the sense of my missive, after shaving off some of my sharper edges. It's about 3/4s the way down the page under 'Unjust cut, after years' work' –
http://www.smh.com.au/letters/index.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
And the full story of the Lobby pursuit of O'Loughlin is here –
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2249539.htm
Thought you might enjoy some antipodean Lobbyology.
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