Why do we say that Israel is delegitimizing itself? Because even Nahum Barnea, the man The New Yorker recently called “the most influential columnist” in Israel, deplores the latest settlement expansion, saying that Israel is becoming an “apartheid” state. Either that or — horrors– a state with an Arab majority…
The massacre in Itamar was terrible news for any person in Israel, leftist or rightist. It’s hard to understand why the government chose to punish us further through settlement expansion. Why do the people who seek to turn Israel into an apartheid state, or alternately, into a state ruled by an Arab majority deserve this reward? Why does everyone else have to be punished?
