I think Jeffrey Goldberg is confused and agonized by Netanyahu’s intransigence. (And in the end he’s going to leave Zionism over it. That’s my bet.) Here’s what he tweeted last night (thanks to Ali Gharib), attacking Netanyahu:
A late-evening thought: Bibi sez 67 borders are indefensible. But they were very defensible in 67. Six-Day War was a military victory.
A smart friend disagrees. He writes:
You’re giving him too much credit – he’s just panicking because he knows that despite the standing ovations from Congress, the whole thing leaves a sour taste in many Americans’ mouths — it’s just that few are willing to take the risk to express it just yet.
The function that Jeffrey Goldberg serves is to muddle the field by presenting (to his upscale, educated, opinion-forming audience) a pro-Israel point of view that is not as worshipful of a foreign leader as the stuff from Commentary and the Likudnik commentators at WaPo, WSJ, etc. But the reason he does this is to achieve the same end result that Bibi and the others want: no American pressure on Israel, no end to American subsidy of Israel.
