Watch this brief video clip of J Street’s Ben-Ami debating Bill Kristol Tuesday night in New York. Ben-Ami makes the point that there are two choices, either come up with a border or give everyone equal rights. Kristol “totally disagrees”:
The third choice is basically the status quo.
Check out his defensive body language. Millions of people with no rights? “Unfortunate situation” but none the less an option as far as he is concerned.
(Hat tip MW commenter Citizen)(Also: Phil Weiss was at this event and is going to be reporting on it Monday.)
Good for J Street for presenting this stark choice. Who stands with Kristol in denying that this is in fact the choice?
Status quo has been Israel’s preference for 20 years (apart from adjusting the status quo by grabbing more Area “C” land every day). And why not? The international community cannot be bothered to ACT (even when Israel “tests” them by demolishing millions of $$ worth of structures they paid for they merely say words, such as “tsk, tsk”).
Is that the status quo in the direction of consolidating apartheid or in the direction of completing the project of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?
What a piece of shit.
The only saving grace from this is that the ‘status quo’ option is now out there.
The proverbial jugular has been exposed.
Ben ami talks about the scenario over “the next few generations” but israel does not have that sort of time.
kristol is a joke. the Weekly standard won’t expect everything to work out if the US debt issue is left at the status quo. life is different, except for israel. Sure it is.