Settler/blogger Yisrael Medad moved first to Israel from the States in 70, then to the West Bank in 81. He was a member of Betar, the same extremist organization that Doug Feith's father was a member of. Here he is, taking on Nadia Hijab of IPS, who has written that the aggressive settler population has made a two-state solution all but impossible:
I don't
think we are that coalesced and coordinated, we are split among too
many breakaway groups but nevertheless, the idea of Jews returning to
their ancestral homeland combined with the refusal of Arabs to
recognize that and seek a compromise, historically and at the present,
is what is our real strength.
The best land is occupied…by
Arabs, by the way, where 99% of we Jews live in Judea and Samaria. Unless, of course, Nadia is referring (surprise! surprise!) to all of
what she thinks is Palestine, i.e., all of Israel, was empty of any
Arab habitation and development over the past 500 years or more.
Medad seems to fulfill Hijab's fears. His word revenant means one returning after a lengthy absence, he says. Oh my. Are Americans to be subject to this sort of extremist thinking? We Jews just as likely originated in Central Asia 1000 years or so back and accepted a religion of the Middle East. Palestinians have wanted to be revenant to I/P for 60 years. I think that Medad demonstrates the truth of Hijab's statement.
