Last night we had a great anonymous report on Saad Eddin Ibrahim's appearance at Harvard. Well, Rob Browne (rbguy at dailykos) reports that Ibrahim will be at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commitee's national convention in June, participating in a panel with Congressman Keith Ellison and John Mearsheimer titled U.S. Policy In The Middle East. Wow. Wild thing/you make my heart sing.
Since it is Yom Ha'atzmaut [Hebrew for the commemoration of Israel's founding], I can't help thinking about a lecture given by Naomi Chazan (former Knesset Member from Meretz and current President of the New Israel Fund) prior to Israel's 60th Anniversary.
At that meeting, she mentioned that the inequalities faced by Israel's
Arab population were a large and growing problem. Unless the State
properly dealt with that issue, there was little chance of Israel celebrating a 120th Anniversary. Now, one year later, there has been the "major" events of the War On/In Gaza and the rise of Avigdor Lieberman, as well as the countless other "minor" events, which have increasingly strained relations
between the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Israel. As a result, I
wonder whether Ms. Chazan will shorten her prediction this year? (If
you are interested, Ms. Chazan is speaking at a free NIF event at Town
and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street at 7pm.)
