Yes, in Stars and Stripes, this AP story:
Israel's hardest battle may still lie ahead, and it's not against an Arab foe. Warnings are growing louder that evicting tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank's heartland - a requirement for peace with the Arabs - will be bloody, and perhaps fail.
Excuse me, but the whole issue of evicting settlers from the West Bank is phony. The settlers don't need to leave, the army needs to leave. If the army leaves, most of the settlers will too. And those who won't will be responsible for themselves.
absolutely, but the question is, could any israeli government order the army back behind the green line without immediately being voted out, and the answer is, no.
I don't know if I believe the talk of civil war in Israel. When I was in Israel, I heard talk of civil war between European and more recent Jewish arrivals from the Arab countries. Now it's between settlers and the rest of the nation. It's more than possible that things have changed or that I didn't understand what was happening in around me, but I can't see Iraeli Jews turning on one another as long as there is an external enemy.
To be honest, I really didn't sense any hostility between European and Middle Eastern Jews, so I don't know what to make of the claims of tension between the two groups. I did hear some of the kibutzniks talk about the crazy settlers when I asked about the building going on in the hills to the east, but I didn't sense any real anger.
"Warnings are growing louder that evicting tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank's heartland – a requirement for peace with the Arabs – will be bloody, and perhaps fail."
Actually, its about 400,000 settlers, including those in and around Jerusalem. The whole lot will have to go.
Shin Bet warns of settler uprising:
link to metimes.com
The analogy proper is just as America politicians have long catered to AIPAC et all, the Israeli politicians have long catered to the settlers.
A handful of zealots in both nations have hijacked objective reason and have been leading both nations over the same cliff.
I don't share the view that the settlers have hijacked anything. Compare the mad Cuban right-wingers in Miami. They are paid, and paid well, by the CIA, to act 'mad'.