I had been thinking the same thing about Roger Cohen as in this earlier post here: How can this obviously thoughtful man who writes so beautifully about the fight against oppression in Iran so studiously skirt the real issues in Palestine? Look today at his lovely piece about South Africa. How can he write about the South Africa of his youth–
It was about denial — of skills to blacks, of mobility to blacks, of a living wage to blacks, of the very humanity of blacks. In the mind of the Afrikaner, with its Biblical justifications for oppression masquerading as separateness, the black majority was good only to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water” — if that.
without mentioning Israel and Palestine of today, which he is also closely personally connected to, and which has such deep parallels?
