Thursday, June 17, 2010

Right and Wrong

Bernard Avishai argues in The Nation against BDS.

Thanks there Bernard.

However, he has to still smash his enemies in Israel and writes there:

But what seems far more likely than a binational state, given the irredentist instincts of the Israeli right and the precedent of violent "steadfastness" of Palestinians (reinforced by the Islamist trend gripping many Palestinian young people), is a kind of Bosnian war. It could start tomorrow with, say, a riot among increasingly impoverished Jerusalem Arabs and spread like wildfire across the West Bank and Israeli Arab towns of the Triangle region. How will B and D do anything but make all Israelis feel demonized and prone to apocalyptic thinking and ethnic cleansing? Already, polls suggest that the Israeli center, which is skeptical of the settlers, feels "the West" does not appreciate what it is like to live with suicide bombers and missile attacks.


Er, this bit:

polls suggest that the Israeli center, which is skeptical of the settlers


is simply off-base.

Check my blog.

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