>Where is Brad's objection to this?
-Oh I object, I object, I object. -But if you read your email, you'd know this already.
Yeah, I missed it until after I sent my message.
>It's the worst news out of the Middle East in quite a while.
>Remember: a lot of Likud voters' came from or their parents came from
>Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and so forth. It has always been possible that
>their attitude toward the Palestinians would crystalize into, "Your
>Arab cousins kicked us out of Damascus, now it's only fair that we
>kick you out of the Judea--go live in my great-uncle's house, and if
>Bashir Assad won't give it to you, too bad."
Sure- which is one reason why I support a two-state solution, since I think bad blood makes a single state non-viable after all the mutual expulsions and killings.
But the history of Israeli claims on all of Palestine are just as long-standing and expansive as those attributed to Palestinian groups, yet in the US the Palestinians are always pictured as potential genocidal killers while the Israelis are left largely off the hook -- except by the Left which sometimes rhetorically reaches the other direction.
But the fact TODAY is that those officially advocating ethnic clensing are in the government of Israel and not in the Palestinian Authority.
-- Nathan Newman