Uneasiness inhabits Israel...More of the same has a name: Benjamin Netanyahu...There is a growing uneasiness, social, political, economic, Amos Oz, the novelist, told me in an interview. There is a growing sense that Israel is becoming an isolated ghetto, which is exactly what the founding fathers and mothers hoped to leave behind them forever when they created the state of Israel. The author, widely viewed as the conscience of a liberal and anti-Messianic Israel, continued, Unless there are two states — Israel next door to Palestine — and soon, there will be one state. If there will be one state, it will be an Arab state. The other option is an Israeli dictatorship, probably a religious nationalist dictatorship, suppressing the Palestinians and suppressing its Jewish opponents... The leader of the Labor Party, Isaac Herzog, has been ushered from unelectable nerd to plausible patriot...Tolerance is under attack as a wave of Israeli nationalism unfurls and settlements grow in the West Bank. This virulent, Jews-first thinking...finds expression in the abuse hurled at anyone...who speaks up for Arab rights. Traitor has become a facile cry...the two-state idea... is incompatible with an Israel bent on Jewish supremacy and annexation of all or most of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:29:49 +0000
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