Remember how the west condemned Russia's attacks on South Ossetia in Georgia? What is the Israeli policy in Gaza? Here is John Mearsheimer writing two weeks ago on TPM:
As [Avraham] Burg makes clear in his book,
today's Israelis are a hard-nosed lot who have contempt for the
Palestinians and do not trust them enough to give them a state of their
own. And he sees this situation getting worse, not better, over time.
today's Israelis are a hard-nosed lot who have contempt for the
Palestinians and do not trust them enough to give them a state of their
own. And he sees this situation getting worse, not better, over time.
So, if there is no two-state solution and Israel continues building
a Greater Israel by expanding the settlements and road networks in the
West Bank and keeping the Palestinians in Gaza locked up in a giant
cage, where does Israel end up? What is the happy ending to this story?
It seems to me that there is no happy ending. Greater Israel will
either have to engage in massive ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians
to remain a democratic and Jewish state, or it will become an apartheid
state, as Olmert predicted…
either have to engage in massive ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians
to remain a democratic and Jewish state, or it will become an apartheid
state, as Olmert predicted…
