Sunday's communal Jewish progressive conference will feature Meretz/USA's Lilly Rivlin in a panel on the effect of the Iraq war on the Middle East. Dan Sisken of Mideast Brief goes after Meretz USA to me today:
What is interesting is that
Meretz/Israel is much more honest about what's going on than
Meretz/USA. You could pull up many statements by Shulamit Aloni (Meretz leader for several years in the nineties) that would support your description of things on the West Bank. At some point, you have to cut through all the BS and recognize the
reality of what's going on in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and has been
for so long. Here's a good one:
Meretz/Israel is much more honest about what's going on than
Meretz/USA. You could pull up many statements by Shulamit Aloni (Meretz leader for several years in the nineties) that would support your description of things on the West Bank. At some point, you have to cut through all the BS and recognize the
reality of what's going on in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and has been
for so long. Here's a good one:
The US Jewish Establishment's
onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring
to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the
government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in
the territory it occupies.
onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring
to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the
government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in
the territory it occupies.
That was the time when everyone in the Jewish establishment and leadership was jumping on Carter. Jeffrey Goldberg called him biblical epithets. Who were the exceptions? Michael Lerner. JVP, I guess.
