God bless the LA Times for its intellectual leadership. I'm proud to know the editorial page editor, Nick Goldberg. Today the page goes further than any MSM page in America and prints an amazing piece by Ben Ehrenreich embracing anti-Zionism as a Jewish tradition. The article is called "Zionism is the problem."
This was bound to happen post-Iraq and in the light of Palestinian affliction. Now it's happened. I'll quote later. Just read it! Oh here's a quote. Brings tears to my eyes.
The fate Buber foresaw is upon us: a nation that has lived in a state
of war for decades, a quarter-million Arab citizens with second-class
status and more than 5 million Palestinians deprived of the most basic
political and human rights. If two decades ago comparisons to the South
African apartheid system felt like hyperbole, they now feel charitable.
The white South African regime, for all its crimes, never attacked the
Bantustans with anything like the destructive power Israel visited on
Gaza in December and January, when nearly 1,300 Palestinians were killed, one-third of them children.
Beautiful. Emphasis mine. Our long nationalist nightmare is beginning to come to an end, in the only place it can be ended: the United States. (Thanks to my friend "7", a Palestinian-American, for passing this along. And if you think Arab-Americans aren't sending this around to Jews and back again so the shock of recognition goes round–wow!!)
