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- 07 Apr 08
- 2:40 pm
Seliger got it just about right (or is it left). The issue is not whether Israeli policies in regard to its own Arab citizens or the Palestinian people can be explained or justified (they cannot) but whether a Jewish cultural-historical reality has a valid claim to political space in the middle east. Just as the American left has constructively created a patriotic narrative of freedom and communalism so too the Zionist left has a strong leftist literature and tradition, an equally compelling "myth" (in the positive sense), by which to move Israel toward a progressive future. And the fight for secular …

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- 08 Apr 08
- 8:40 am
re: evanj "compromised" "complicit" "criminality"...this language of deligitimation is that which can make even the most progressive Jews a bit paranoid. And the fact that the center of Israeli politics including former stalwarts of the Israeli right like Olmert and Livni (PM and Foreign Minister) are now in the peace camp is a good thing not an indictment of Israeli society in ite entirety. Lets be clear: Israel lost its way big time over the past 40 years but that is not a reason to pull the plug --particularly when the alternative is a bi-national state in concert with Hamas fundamentalists. …

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