What's Marty Peretz's game? Elena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, gave a speech in Norway. The New Republic picked it up, and Peretz called it "wonderful." Bonner has a harsh streak. Here she is on the two-state solution:
[C]reated next
to Israel will be a Palestinian state cleansed of Jews, because in
addition to the demand that Palestinian refugees return to Israel,
there is also the demand that Judea and Samaria are cleansed of Jews
and turned over to Palestinians–while in Gaza today there is not a
single Jew already.The result is both
strange and terrifying, because Israel will essentially be destroyed.
It is terrifying to see the short memory of the august peacemaking
Quartet, their leaders and their citizens if they let this happen.
Because the plan "two states for two peoples" is the creation of one
state, ethnically cleansed of Jews, and a second one with the potential
to do the same. A Judenfrei Holy Land–the dream of Adolph Hitler come
true at last. So think again, those who are still able, who has a
fascist inside him today?
Bonner is imagining the exercise of the right of return, which has been promised to Palestinian refugees for 61 years and never fulfilled. And is unlikely to be fulfilled now, either. Weird to think what Peretz wants for "Judea and Samaria." Weird to think how much power Peretz and his neoconsanguineous friends wield in D.C.
