[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on Ted Honderich

[Michael Pollak]

Fwiw, if anyone has some free time, here are three articles that criticize
Israel on some of the strongest grounds -- that it was conceived in ethnic
cleansing, and that it is instituting apartheid -- but do it without using
racial terminology, and in a style I consider more persuasive.

Archived articles by Ran HaCohen:

        Ethnic Cleansing: Past, Present and Future

        URL: http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h123002.html

        Ethnic Cleansing: Some Common Reactions

        URL: http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h011303.html

        The Apartheid Wall

        URL: http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h052103.html

Just for the record, this is the first guy I've run into who (in the third
article) makes exactly the same argument I made a few weeks about the
"back wall" part of the separation wall and the walled in bantustans that
will result if its carried out.  (Except that he does it better than I
did.)  Everyone else, as far as I can see, including the peace groups and
spokesman who are most involved with fighting the separation wall, spend
almost all their time talking about the front wall, which I think doesn't
make clear the extent to which this is not simply a new intensification of
what Israel has been doing all along, but something qualitatively new and
more awful.

This back wall thing is still very under-reported story.  It shows that
not only is the road map not leading to peace -- it's strangling the last
bit of life out of the two state solution.

Michael