In These Times

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• • 14 Feb 08
  • 9:41 am

  Neve Gordon’s articles are difficult reading for Zionists, even a progressive Zionist such as myself. It’s not that he’s wrong in most of his facts regarding inequities in the Jewish State and injustices in the Palestinian territories, but he writes from a gratuitously anti-Zionist perspective. We know of the injustices visited upon the Negev Bedouin, not to mention what’s going on in the territories; we’ve highlighted the shame of the Negev situation in a lead article in the current issue of the Meretz USA publication, ISRAEL HORIZONS. The problem with Prof. Gordon, symbolized in the harsh (albeit catchy) choice of title …

  Posted to Outsourcing Zionism

• • 15 Mar 07
  • 11:32 am

  One doesn’t need a conspiracy theory to account for the many sins of commission and omission by the Bush administration. Salim Muwakkil's "For Israel's Sake" strings together a number of unoriginal, off-the-mark and over-the-top observations. To start with, Israel does not have a "right-wing government." It has a broad (overly broad) and relatively young centrist coalition that is paralyzed and beset by a host of scandals, legal investigations, internal divisions and plummeting public support. Mr. Muwakkil rounds up the usual suspects, a bunch of diabolical Jewish "neocons" -- none of whom named are even in government anymore -- cleverly manipulating their …

  Posted to For Israel's Sake