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)
