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Why do liberal Zionists have all the fun? I don’t know, but they do! Bernard Avishai has the run of Harper’s and the New York Times, Gershom Gorenberg all over the Times. I couldn’t get arrested on 7th Avenue!
Here’s Gorenberg’s latest, in the Op-Ed section. It’s good. At the end Gorenberg seems to acknowledge quietly that the two state solution of blessed memory may not take place, settlers won’t ever leave the West Bank. And meantime the occupation has eaten Israel; extremists are Judaizing Palestinian areas of Israel. It’s the “other occupation.” Congrats to the Times for highlighting this issue. (Though yes, hasn’t Jewish supremacy always been at the heart of Zionism?)
For several years, extremist West Bank settlers have conducted a campaign of low-level violence against their Palestinian neighbors — destroying property, vandalizing mosques and occasionally injuring people. Such “price tag” attacks, intended to intimidate Palestinians and make Israeli leaders pay a price for enforcing the law against settlers, have become part of the routine of conflict in occupied territory.
Now that conflict is coming home. The words “price tag” spray-painted in Hebrew on the wall of a burned mosque inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders transformed Israel’s Arab citizens into targets and tore at the all-too-delicate fabric of a shared democracy.
Indeed, the mosque burning represented the violent, visible edge of a larger change: the ethnic conflict in the West Bank is metastasizing into Israel, threatening its democracy and unraveling its society.
The agents of this change include veterans of West Bank settlements seeking to establish a presence in shared Jewish-Arab cities in Israel and politicians backing a wave of legislation intended to reduce the rights of Arab citizens.
hey, so-called liberal zionist
now that the zionist entity has abandoned all pretense of being a democracy
how does it feel to support an openly racist society?
no matter, because it’s still jewish?
but can a society that’s racist be jewish?
no matter, because it still can serve as a sanctuary for me & mine, should the need arise for us to seek refuge from a flare-up of antisemitism?
but would you even consider leaving america for the uncertainty of that strife-torn land?
what could i do instead?
join the struggle for a just and peaceful world*
*which, had the zionists done this eighty years ago, could have prevented the holocaust, rather than feeding off of it as they did
RE: “It’s the ‘other occupation’.” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: The “other” occupation? Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, now I remember: Pork. The Other White Meat.™
• 1992 – Commercial – America’s Pork Producers – Pork, The other white meat… (VIDEO, 00.24) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTIoX0cSTQ
• Squirrel, the other white meat (jpeg image) – http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2628795395783&set=a.2628776755317.139666.1132268443&type=3&theater
• Jesus, the other white meat (jpeg image) – http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2628795435784&set=a.2628776755317.139666.1132268443&type=3&theater
“Low level violence” my ass. Is it merely “low level” because the victims aren’t Jewish, Mr. Gorenberg?
“Now that conflict is coming home. The words “price tag” spray-painted in Hebrew on the wall of a burned mosque inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders transformed Israel’s Arab citizens into targets and tore at the all-too-delicate fabric of a shared democracy.”
A very good Gideon Levy piece in response
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israel-s-rightist-religious-camps-mired-in-identity-crisis-1.397941?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.225%2C2.227%2C
Try asking Likud MKs Danny Danon, Yariv Levin or Zeev Elkin where they are headed and what kind of Israel they hope for. Ask them what will be here in another 20 years if we continue down their path. What would happen if they got their way, right down to the last whim? The settlements would be built. Nonprofit organizations would be shut down. The Arabs would be subjugated. Racist legislation would be passed. Antidemocratic directives would be adopted, along with a host of prohibitions and crackdowns. Do they really believe such a state could survive?
The settlers believe that Israel-is-one. One state. One imagines that (even if they do not speak legalese) they think the war of 1948 was part of (a to be long simmering) civil war for political and social control over a single state, a single land.
Perhaps that is a correct view, even in law, although the interpreters of law call the West Bank and Gaza “occupied territory”, not part of “Israel” (a country conveniently without stated boundaries).
But if all I/P is one state, and the civil war pretty much a thing of the past, then what we see now is a non-democratic single state enjoying (is that the mot juste?) a sort of slow-motion expulsion and (relatively) gentle holocaust by most Jews against the Palestinians (pretenders to ownership of what the Jews know they properly own now) and also enjoying (ditto) a sort of civil war between lawless elements (the terrorist-settlers who are, to use American ideqs from 100 years ago, vigilantes-kukluxklan-indian-fighters) and all others.
And how the governors of the USA and the EU countries just love to stand and watch! What fun! Good entertainment in a time of financial melt-down. If not “bread”, then “circuses”. Feed Palestinians to lions!
(NB: Jewish lions do, indeed, eat non-Christians, dear.)