Yes I’m going wild with Norman Podhoretz! I can’t help myself. Can you? From the New York Times:
Podhoretz: The ideology of the left, in the last 50 years roughly, has represented the Palestinians as a kind of dark-skinned oppressed people like the blacks in this country. Obama believes that.
[Deborah Solomon of NYT] You mean that the Palestinians are oppressed by Jewish settlements?
Podhoretz: It’s a crazy idea, but the Palestinians have been identified with the putative victims of European colonialism.
Putative. That sounds like a word from the crazy Old South.
