If you don’t want to be duly bored and disgusted by what Hussein Ibish has to say in his latest interview with Jeffrey Goldberg then allow me to sum it up for you:
- no dialogue with the democratically elected government in Gaza
- equates Jewish Voice for Peace with the Zionist Organization of America.
- spends his time and efforts attempting and failing to discredit the one state solution.
- says that Israeli one staters would fill a small auditorium, therefore the whole thing is futile. (Why he would allow Israelis to frame the argument for Palestinians in mind boggling.)
- wants J Street to be more serious about Israel’s security needs (yup!).
- wants people to forget the BDS talk because the U.S. loves Israel so Palestinians should respect that.
- one staters are bad because they say mean things about Zionism.
- wants Palestinians to stop blaming the Israelis for being occupied.
What a despicable guy.
The only good thing about Hussein Ibish is that he is completely irrelevant in Palestine and among Palestinians. He doesn’t speak for Palestinians, he only speaks for people like Mohammad Dahlan who likes to terrorize Palestinian Christians in Gaza and then blame it on Hamas.
While the rest of progressive Palestinians, Arabs and Jews are fighting for a true and just peace in Palestine, Ibish is defending criminals and turncoats like Dahlan, Fayyad and Abbas. Who nominated this guy to drag down the Palestinian cause and attempt to stifle the hard work being done in the name of freedom, liberty, democracy and justice? He regularly attacks people like Ali Abunimeh, Omar Barghouti, Joseph Massad and As`ad Abukhalil for being stuck in the "60’s" but they’re the only ones that have raised the level of discourse to include not only the Palestinian struggle for freedom from occupation but also the struggle to liberate themselves from corrupt and backwards leaders, like the kind Ibish is advocating be forced on them.
