[lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

[Brad DeLong]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>>Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns
>
>>To call for the ethnic cleansing and forced resettlement of five
>>million Israelis is a left-wing cause?
>>The things I did not know...
>
>A bit of a stretch since all but the most extreme Palestinians would allow
>Jews to remain even if the whole "river to sea" area was made one country.
>The issue illustrates the difference between the Israeli extremists and the
>Palestinian extremists.  If Israel annexes all of "Judea and Samarian",
>ethnic clensing is required since Jews would no longer be a majority, so a
>democratic Jewish state is impossible without ethnic clensing.
>
>Conversely, Palestinians can obtain a state they would politically dominate
>without ethnic clensing, so even the more militant groups generally state
>that the Jews would be free to stay even if a single state was established
>for the whole region.
>
>So attributing ethnic clensing-- the official policy of parties within the
>ruling Israeli government -- to Palestinians and their supporters is just
>inaccurate.  Some Palestinian groups are anti-Jewish and want their
>expulsion, but it is not the official policy of almost any Palestinian
>groups.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

I *know* that you are not as much of an idiot as this post suggests...

Brad DeLong