Noam Sheizaf at +972 demonstrates that Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post is an advocate for the one-state solution. Along the way, he gets off this line:
Rubin is a radical neo-con, so it’s not surprising that her trip to the West Bank reads like a journey to the segregated south, hosted by a hospitable Klan member.
Sheizaf is a brilliant writer. Remember we did a post on him saying he’d rather be writing about cinema but he was called to a crisis. He has become one of the leaders of the Israeli democracy movement. What a savage commentary it is on American publications that when Israel/Palestine is in such a crisis, the Washington Post and New York Review of Books have yet to publish Sheizaf. But they will.
More from Sheizaf:
We are left with the unpleasant issues of equal rights. There are over 2 million Palestinians living in the same territory as the settlers, subject to military control, and with no political rights. Even after Oslo and the establishing of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinians can’t travel freely; they are tried in military courts and are subject to the decisions of the regional military commanders. Ben-Dror Yemini, a conservative rightwing columnist for Maariv and the Jerusalem Post, calls it Apartheid (though he blames the Palestinians for it). So who are we to argue?
Much like Rubin, I am not happy with the demonization of the settlers by the media. The occupation is an Israeli project, initiated and executed by government agencies. Blaming it on the settlers, like most liberals do, is making life way too easy. But if the territories are indeed part of Israel, as the settlers’ leaders claim, then the only possible solution would be along the lines of “one man, one vote.” This is one issue the rightwing neo-cons refuse to deal with, and when they do – they come up with the craziest ideas.
