New Yorker editor David Remnick, speaking to Yediot Ahronot:
The US administration is trying out of good will to get a peace process moving and in return Israel lays out conditions like the release Jonathan Pollard. Sorry, it can’t go on this way. The Jewish community is not just a nice breakfast at the Regency.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells reporting in New York Magazine:
When I met Peretz ten weeks later [after the Harvard protest], he still seemed on edge. The bigotry charge was what lingered. “I mean, it hurts,” he said. We were in the dining room of the Loews Regency Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where the waiters greet him as “Dr. Peretz.”
If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi
If you act, as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity
We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity
A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity
It’s so deep, it’s so wide
Your inside
Synchronicity
Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity……
Yes, “it hurts.” That’s why Peretz and others tried for so long to silence critics of Israeli-government crimes against International Law with “the bigotry charge” of anti-Semitism. Peretz knows that such an accusation cuts deep.
But Peretz’s unease because someone tells the truth about his actions against others doesn’t come close to what he might regret–or touch a smidge of all the sufferings of Palestinians in all the minutes, of all the days, through all the decades.
When, I wonder, will Israel act to demonstrate some good will for the sacrifices the US has made over the decades on Israel’s behalf?
never and never
… we are not being a cooperative host at the moment, trying to scratch at our parasite
israel wants mindless compliance only
He also faces the legacy of being known as ‘that old bigot’, which MJ Rosenberg brands him as today. Can’t remember the exact term, but Peretz is trashed.
The March of Time.
Guess these guys never thought their cruelty and thoughtlessness would get old, and supersede any WWII war spectacle.
Just who is the intended audience for this sop? Assuming that this is the same David Remnick who has declared Arab and Palestinian opposition to Israel’s occupation and ethnic cleansing to be anti-Semitic.
Remnick probably now understands that the tide has turned, and he is accused of being intellectually dishonest by casually throwing out the anti-Semite canard. Phil is right. Something has changed in the wake of the breakdown in the “peace process.”. Marty Peretz would have gotten away with saying Muslim life is cheap only a few years ago.
And now, “Obama — you have no new clothes”..
Peretz: It hurts to lose your friends, to lose the (mask of) respect that an (apparently) adoring populace grants you. Keeping up a emperor’s-new-clothes facade for too long makes liars of everyone who says how beautiful the new clothes are. finally, a few start saying that they are not so beautiful, or that they don’t exist at all, etc., and slowly the earthworks erected to contain the waters is breached by a trickle, then a stream, then a flood.
“Peretz: You are a bigot and we refuse to (continue to) join you there.” Hurts.
And now, “Obama — you have no new clothes”..