The Christian Science Monitor has published a bold piece by John Whitbeck, who has advised the Palestinians, calling for a binational state in historic Palestine, and an end to Zionism.
Traumatized by the Holocaust and perceived insecurity as a Jewish
island in an Arab sea, Israelis have immense psychological problems in
coming to grips with the practical impossibility of sustaining forever
what most of mankind views as a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial
regime founded upon the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population.
Wow. Whitbeck calls on Americans to help Israelis "imagine" a more humane future. Hear, hear. This is, I think, the greatest fear among progressive Zionists: that if progressive Americans actually get engaged on Israel/Palestine, they will be horrified by Zionist principles such as the Law of Return and say What the heck is going on here? Then progressive Zionists will be hanging on to Walt and Mearsheimer (pro-Zionists) for all they’re worth…
