A Toronto Globe and Mail report from Jerusalem says that anti-Arab feeling is rising among Israeli youth. They're more receptive to "transfer" ideas, and chant "Death to Arabs." The piece strikes me as an implicit argument against the idea of a Jewish state, in which, inevitably tribe is set against tribe. And wasn't that the takeaway from Bob Simon's report on the crazy settlers on "60 Minutes" last night?
The Anti-Defamation League issued a rather-weak condemnation of the broadcast as a "hatchet job":
Bob
Simon presented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in stark
black-and-white terms, without context or history and ignoring its
complexities. The resulting impression is that the prominent voice in
Israel is that of the hard-line settler and of an Israeli army that
undertakes actions to purposely humiliate Palestinians.
Simon presented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in stark
black-and-white terms, without context or history and ignoring its
complexities. The resulting impression is that the prominent voice in
Israel is that of the hard-line settler and of an Israeli army that
undertakes actions to purposely humiliate Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations celebrated "60 Minutes." CAIR's director Nihad Awad implied that the failure to establish the '67 border opens up the '48 landgrab:
“This powerful report shows clearly that the only way to resolve the conflict and bring peace and stability to the region is to address the fundamental issues of justice that have been ignored by the world community for far too long.”
(Phil Weiss)
